US Patent Issued to LNW Gaming on July 21 for "Tracking gaming payment-card transactions and spending limits via token(s)" (Nevada Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,941, issued on July 21, was assigned to LNW Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Tracking gaming payment-card transactions and spending limits via token(s)" was invented by Martin S. Lyons (Henderson, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method(s) for tracking gaming payment-card transactions using a token is described. A method, for instance, includes initiating, via a player interface device, a payment-card transaction to purchase game credits for use at a gaming machine. The method further includes obtaining, from a payment terminal in response to initiating the payment-card transaction, a token that replaces sensitive payment-ca...