ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,007, issued on May 26, was assigned to Video Gaming Technologies Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.).

"System and method for authenticating storage media within an electronic gaming system" was invented by Michael Oberberger (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of authenticating a memory of a gaming machine uses a computing device having a processor communicatively coupled to a memory. The method includes identifying a first subset of the memory including one or more operational data components associated with operating the gaming machine. The method also includes identifying a second subset of the memory....