US Patent Issued to LNW Gaming on Sept. 1 for "Game initiation in response to optical machine readable data representation images" (Illinois, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,485, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to LNW Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Game initiation in response to optical machine readable data representation images" was invented by Mark B. Gagner (West Chicago, Ill.), Damon E. Gura (Chicago), Timothy C. Loose (Chicago), James M. Rasmussen (Chicago), Victor T. Shi (Morton Grove, Ill.) and Alfred Thomas (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, in a system comprising a wagering game machine, the wagering gaming machine including a digital camera and a barcode recognition unit, a method includes: detecting, by the digital camera, a barcode within a field of view of the digital...