US Patent Issued to IGT on May 19 for "Methods and systems for security of gaming machine show software" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,195, issued on May 19, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Methods and systems for security of gaming machine show software" was invented by Yan Ha (Reno, Nev.), Dwayne Nelson (Las Vegas) and Kevin Higgins (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to controlling access to a gaming system. According to one embodiment, controlling access to a gaming system can comprise initiating a start-up routine and reading, during the start-up routine, a pre-defined value stored in a memory of the gaming system. The pre-defined value can indicate a market in which the gaming system is to be operated....