US Patent Issued to IGT on May 5 for "Linking gaming establishment fund management account with financial account associated with payment instrument" (Nevada, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,963, issued on May 5, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Linking gaming establishment fund management account with financial account associated with payment instrument" was invented by Kevin Higgins (Reno, Nev.), Lisa Schiffer (Norton, Mass.) and Jeffery Shepherd (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that, responsive to a receipt, from a component of a credit card issuer, of a request for payment of an amount of debt incurred in association with a credit card, utilize funds associated with a gaming establishment account to transact against an amount of funds owed in association with a financial account associate...