ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,447, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Sierra Artificial Neural Networks (Las Vegas).

"Systems and methods for slot machine game development utilizing programming related artificial intelligence game design systems" was invented by David Colvin (Las Vegas) and Eric Colvin (Meridian, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for developing a game of chance. The game of chance being at least partially developed using specialized artificial intelligence (AI) game design systems or specialized artificial intelligence game design system modules or components which may include different types of machine learning or trainin...