US Patent Issued to IGT on Nov. 3 for "Augmented reality systems and methods for providing a wagering game having real-world and virtual elements" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,532, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Augmented reality systems and methods for providing a wagering game having real-world and virtual elements" was invented by Michael Russ (Graz, Austria), Lukas Angermayer (Graz, Austria), Gerhard Pichler (Graz, Austria), Elisabeth Kiss (Unterpremstatten, Austria), Caprice Mitterhoefer (Graz, Austria), Martin Lasser (Schladming, Austria) and Julia-Ines Lerchbaumer (Spielfeld, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An augmented reality method for providing a wagering game having real-world and virtual elements includes generating a live video signal of a scene associated with a fi...