US Patent Issued to IGT on Oct. 6 for "Cross-channel wagering game tournaments" (Canadian, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,605, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Cross-channel wagering game tournaments" was invented by David Froy (Lakeville-Westmorland, Canada), Gaurav Jariwala (Halifax, Canada), Fayez Idris (Dieppe, Canada), Karen Van Niekerk (Dieppe, Canada), Bethany Plimmer (Lower Coverdale, Canada), David Small (Moncton, Canada), Todd Grimm (Riverview, Canada) and Michael Russ (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a processor circuit and a memory coupled to the processor circuit. The memory includes machine-readable instructions that cause the processor circuit to receive a first tournament entry for a wager...