ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,461, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Tracking locations of anonymous players" was invented by Wei Gong (Beijing), Rong Fu (Beijing), Aleksandar Jovkovic (Las Vegas) and Fei Yi (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that utilize service order identifiers to track the location of anonymous players whom have placed service orders."

The patent was filed on Sept. 18, 2024, under Application No. 18/888,715.

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