ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,676, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to LNW Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Cross-channel blockchain and non-fungible token solutions integrated in a gaming system" was invented by Mili Dalmia (Bangalore, India), Sunil Somanna T S (Bangalore, India), Ramesh Gandhi Mathiyalagan (Chennai, India), Muthu Velu (Schaumburg, Ill.), Mark Hinchcliffe (Middleton, Great Britain) and Mahesh Lakshmana Perumal (Itasca, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for gaming solutions across different gaming channels, different entities, and different environments using blockchain and/or non-fungible token (NFT) components and/or ...