US Patent Issued to Sightline Payments on June 3 for "Systems and methods for conversion of loyalty program rewards" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,251, issued on June 3, was assigned to Sightline Payments LLC (Las Vegas).

"Systems and methods for conversion of loyalty program rewards" was invented by Kirk E. Sanford (Las Vegas), Thomas M. Sears (Henderson, Nev.) and Omer Sattar (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for associating a player loyalty account of a player with a stored value account. The player can accumulate loyalty points over time. The accumulated loyalty points can be converted to value, such as cash or coupons, associated with the stored value account. The value can be accessed by the player through the use of a stored value...