ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,435, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to LNW Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Gaming environment tracking optimization" was invented by Bryan Kelly (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.) and Martin S. Lyons (Henderson, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming system that receives a frame of image data captured by a camera at a gaming table, detects, based on analysis of the image, a game state, and generates, via a graphical template associated with the game state, a set of digital images from cropped from portions of the frame of image data specified via the template. The system determines whether the set of images meets a maximum resolution ...