ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,125, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"System and method for utilizing location-based analytics to provide gaming awards" was invented by Sina Miri (Menlo Park, Calif.), Dwayne Davis (Reno, Nev.), Kevin Higgins (Reno, Nev.), Matt Christopher Levin (Reno, Nev.) and Erik Petersen (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that provides a player a benefit based on location data associated with the player and game play history data associated with the player."

The patent was filed on Aug. 2, 2023, under Application No. 18/229,402.

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