ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,484, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to LNW Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).
"Methods for augmented reality gaming" was invented by Martin S. Lyons (Henderson, Nev.), Brett Jackson (Wilmette, Ill.), Roderick Ang (Reno, Nev.) and Joseph R. Hedrick (Reno, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of detecting bonus redemption fraud in a gaming system includes capturing an image of a player's game play on a gaming machine with a camera on a mobile device. The image is sent to a server that analyzes the image for fraud. The server identifies a symbol matrix from the image. The symbol matrix comprises an arrangement of symbols for the game. Th...