ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,951, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Salty Crew Poker LLC (Wash.).
"Gaming bounty aggregation and management device" was invented by Patrick Highley (Edmonds, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for managing bounty information across players for use in a tournament that makes use of bounties. In the disclosed system, bounty amounts are transferred and aggregated as players are eliminated. A first bounty amount maintained in relation to a first bounty tracking device for an eliminated player is aggregated with a second bounty amount maintained in relation to a second bounty tracking device for ...