US Patent Issued to Konami Gaming on Aug. 18 for "System, method, and program using near field communication to facilitate the purchase of wagering credits at a gaming device" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,835, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Konami Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).

"System, method, and program using near field communication to facilitate the purchase of wagering credits at a gaming device" was invented by Thomas E. Soukup (Las Vegas), Edward Sepich (Henderson, Nev.) and Jeffrey George (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A networked computer system is described herein. The networked computer system includes a plurality of gaming devices coupled to a plurality of player tracking devices, and a player tracking system including a processor coupled in communication with each player tracking device. Each player tracking dev...