ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,769, issued on June 30, was assigned to LNW Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).
"Controlling roulette progressive features" was invented by William Jones (Boulder, Colo.) and Elliot Frome (Las Vegas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and/or system to perform operations associated with a roulette game. The operations include detecting placement of a roulette bet by at least one player terminal of a plurality of player terminals of the gaming system. The roulette bet is placed prior to computing a result for a playing round of a roulette game. The operations further include computing a prorated amount of a progressive jackpot award based on ...