US Patent Issued to IGT on Oct. 6 for "Slot game tokenization" (Austrian, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,607, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Slot game tokenization" was invented by Stefan Keilwert (St. Josef, Austria), Soheil Latifi (Brampton, Canada) and Michael Russ (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices are provided herein. A method includes providing, by a processor circuit, a primary wagering game at a physical gaming asset to a first player, dividing, by the processor circuit, a value of the physical gaming asset, into multiple cryptographic tokens that each correspond to an ownership share of the physical gaming asset, and transferring one of the cryptographic tokens to the...