US Patent Issued to IGT on Sept. 8 for "Shared game benefits using cryptographic tokens" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,461, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Shared game benefits using cryptographic tokens" was invented by Jackie Alvarez (Las Vegas), David Small (Moncton, Canada), David Froy (Lakeville-Westmorland, Canada), Gaurav Jariwala (Halifax, Canada), Anthony Baerlocher (Henderson, Nev.), Todd Grimm (Riverview, Canada), Karen Van Niekerk (Dieppe, Canada) and Daniel Landry (Moncton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of cryptographic tokens are determined, each including a common identifier indicative of the cryptographic token being part of the plurality of cryptographic tokens, and a player identifier indicat...