US Patent Issued to Playstudios US on Feb. 24 for "Cash slot machine augmented with secondary currency" (Nevada, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,027, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Playstudios US LLC (Las Vegas).

"Cash slot machine augmented with secondary currency" was invented by Andrew Pascal (Las Vegas), Paul Mathews (Las Vegas) and Monty Kerr (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and computer readable storage to implement an augmented game system. A player can play an online game and accumulate loyalty points without have to pay cash. The player can enter a physical casino and play an electronic gaming machine which can retrieve the player's information from the online game including the number of loyalty points the player has and any oth...