US Patent Issued to IGT on Nov. 3 for "Physical cryptographic tokens for a wagering game" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,542, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Physical cryptographic tokens for a wagering game" was invented by Jackie Alvarez (Las Vegas), David Small (Moncton, Canada), Todd Grimm (Riverview, Canada), Daniel Landry (Moncton, Canada), Bethany Plimmer (Lower Coverdale, Canada), Gaurav Jariwala (Halifax, Canada), David Froy (Lakeville-Westmorland, Canada), Karen Van Niekerk (Dieppe, Canada), Aaron Corey (Moncton, Canada) and Anthony Baerlocher (Henderson, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A physical cryptographic token may include a substrate and a passive identifier device for passively providing a token identifier assoc...