US Patent Issued to IGT on Oct. 6 for "Shared celebrations in a shared virtual gaming environment" (Canadian, Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,602, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Shared celebrations in a shared virtual gaming environment" was invented by Bethany Plimmer (Lower Coverdale, Canada), Aaron Corey (Moncton, Canada), Karen Van Niekerk (Dieppe, Canada), Todd Grimm (Riverview, Canada) and Michael Russ (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor circuit transmits display data corresponding to a shared virtual environment (SVE) to a plurality of player devices including user display data that causes a display device of each player device to render a portion of the SVE based on a virtual orientation of the player device and a virtual l...