US Patent Issued to IGT on Oct. 20 for "Personal funding of awards" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,467, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Personal funding of awards" was invented by Patrick Danielson (Las Vegas) and Dwayne Nelson (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that enable an item and/or an amount of funds associated with a user to be made available in association with an award opportunity provided to a player of a gaming device."

The patent was filed on Dec. 4, 2023, under Application No. 18/528,102.

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