US Patent Issued to LNW Gaming on April 7 for "Device-to-device transfer of wagering game objects" (Nevada, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,317, issued on April 7, was assigned to LNW Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Device-to-device transfer of wagering game objects" was invented by Anthony J. Baerlocher (Henderson, Nev.), Dion K. Aoki (Chicago), Larry J. Pacey (Northbrook, Ill.), Jesse M. Smith (Chicago) and Jamie W. Vann (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are described that involve operations to communicatively couple a personal mobile device to an additional device via a casino network. The operations are further to detect a user-input gesture, performed via one or more of the personal mobile device or the additional device, to transfer a gaming obj...