ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,005, issued on May 26, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Transferring sessions between virtual reality devices" was invented by Dwayne Nelson (Las Vegas) and Kevin Higgins (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a communication interface, a processing circuit, and a memory coupled to the processing circuit. The memory includes machine readable instructions that, when executed by the processing circuit, cause the processing circuit to determine a trigger event corresponding a virtual gaming session that is provided to a user via a first mobile computing device. Based on the trigger event, the processing circuit is ...