ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,459, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).
"Central determination gaming for game presentation devices in a non-gaming establishment environment" was invented by Anthony Baerlocher (Henderson, Nev.) and Luigi Cacciapuoti (Las Vegas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that employ a cloud-based central determination server to provide predetermined game outcomes displayed at a game presentation device operating with a remote game server and a balance management server in association with funds transacted at a point-of-sale terminal."
The patent was filed on Sept. 21, 2022, under Application No. 17/949,510....