Patents Assigned to AGS LLC
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Patent number: 11954976Abstract: A bonus providing element distinct from an underlying game enables bonus awards to players at two or more player positions of the underlying game based upon receipt of a predetermined triggering outcome in the underlying game by the bonus providing element providing an indication of at least three individual random indicators, such as: a) a first random indicator configured to provide an identification of a first award to be awarded to qualifying players of the players of the underlying game; b) a second random indicator configured to provide an identification of a single one of the two or more player positions; and c) a third random indicator configured to provide an identification of a second award to be awarded to the player at the single one of the two or more player positions indicated by the second random indictor.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: AGS LLCInventor: Jamie Abrahamson
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Patent number: 11941948Abstract: Table-based gaming actions are disclosed where additional prizes or other gains can be awarded after spinning of a first reward determining wheel of chance by spinning of one or more further wheels of chance where the further spinnings are enabled by a previous spin outcome landing on an outcome selecting segment that awards a partial reward and also awards the spinning of the next successive wheel of chance. Each of the successive wheels of chance is different from the others such that a variety of reward possibilities is provided. For one embodiment, a bonus awarding segment of the first wheel has a highest probability of occurrence and a lowest initial payout value.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: AGS LLCInventors: Andrew Price Pawlak, Eric Ivan Effros
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Publication number: 20240078875Abstract: A wager-based game includes a base game and a persistent feature game. A player may be provided an award based on the outcome of the base game. A counter may be incremented in response to an occurrence of a triggering symbol in the outcome of the base game and associated prize is added to an accumulator. The prize is awarded to the player if the counter is equal to a maximum value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: AGS LLCInventors: Oliver C Crispino, Billy Tam
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Patent number: 11900760Abstract: Various aspects disclosed herein are directed to different systems and methods for providing a universal, adjustable printer bezel assembly which is compatible for use with a plurality of different types of ticket printer devices from different ticket printer manufacturers.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: AGS LLCInventor: Kevin Lee Hohman
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Patent number: 11900761Abstract: An upright gaming machine includes a game determination component that facilitates a wager-based game result, input/output devices coupled to the game determination component, a gaming machine cabinet housing various gaming machine components, and lower and cash access doors located about the gaming machine cabinet. The lower door can be fully removable from the gaming machine, can facilitate access to an internal belly region, and can include a tethered locking arrangement having rotary latches, stationary pins, and a tether. The cash door includes a virtual pivot hinge opening arrangement that moves the cash door in a swivel motion from a closed position to an open position, where the swivel motion of the cash door is about a virtual axis having a center of rotation for which no physical component passes therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: AGS LLCInventors: James Ely Tillery, Kevin Berwick Green
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Patent number: 11869300Abstract: An ancillary display for a gaming environment having one or more gaming machines each having a respective primary display that displays respective gaming action and/or gaming enticements includes a subarea image capturing circuit configured to capture video subarea signals corresponding to a predetermined subportion of imagery presented by at least one of the primary displays of at least one of the gaming machines, and one or more image output driver circuits configured to output ancillary imagery that is responsive to at least one of the captured video subarea signals.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: AGS LLCInventor: Gerald Francis Wasinger
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Publication number: 20230351859Abstract: System, method and computer-readable storage media for presenting an outcome of a bingo game as a roulette-style game, the bingo game utilizing a plurality of bingo cards, the roulette-style game utilizing a virtual roulette wheel having a predetermined number of pockets. The bingo game having a pay table including a plurality of wagers and a payout associated with each wager. The bingo game uses predetermined interim patterns associated with a plurality of bingo cards, wherein roulette-style game data maps one or more of the predetermined interim patterns to each pocket of the virtual roulette wheel. Each wager of the pay table is associated with one or more of the pockets on the virtual roulette wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2022Publication date: November 2, 2023Applicant: AGS LLCInventors: Jason D. Elison, Richard J. LaBrocca
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Patent number: 11734989Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a gaming device including a memory, a processor, a display, a plurality of display areas located on the display, and a plurality of external lights located at an outer area of a front surface of the electronic gaming device. The plurality of external lights forming au-shape with a left side, a right side, and a bottom where each of the left side, the right side, and the bottom includes a first light column, a second light column, and a third light column. The gaming device including a processor that initiates a base game via the plurality of display areas located on the display.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: AGS LLCInventors: Sigmund Hyunjai Lee, Karl Frederick Zedell, Jr., Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Ian Robert Scott, Wei Gu, Daniel Kendall Harden, Ariel David Turgel
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Patent number: 11676451Abstract: Table-based gaming actions are disclosed where additional prizes or other gains can be awarded when a community event occurs at a given table and the event had been wagered upon by side bets placed at that table. One of the possible awards is that for a shared multi-table progressive jackpot prize that receives contributions from side bets placed at different kinds of gaming tables including ones that have community events of different probabilities of occurrence and/or ones that have different numbers of operational betting positions. Methods are disclosed for equalizing the chance at each betting position for winning the multi-table progressive jackpot prize despite the differences in probability of occurrence of the respective community event and/or different numbers of operational betting positions at the respective tables.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: AGS LLCInventor: Jamie Allan Abrahamson
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Publication number: 20230154275Abstract: An upright gaming machine includes a game determination component that facilitates a wager-based game result, input/output devices coupled to the game determination component, a gaming machine cabinet housing various gaming machine components, and lower and cash access doors located about the gaming machine cabinet. The lower door can be fully removable from the gaming machine, can facilitate access to an internal belly region, and can include a tethered locking arrangement having rotary latches, stationary pins, and a tether. The cash door includes a virtual pivot hinge opening arrangement that moves the cash door in a swivel motion from a closed position to an open position, where the swivel motion of the cash door is about a virtual axis having a center of rotation for which no physical component passes therethrough.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2023Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: AGS LLCInventors: James Ely Tillery, Kevin Berwick Green
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Patent number: 11587392Abstract: An upright gaming machine includes a game determination component that facilitates a wager-based game result, input/output devices coupled to the game determination component, a gaming machine cabinet housing various gaming machine components, and lower and cash access doors located about the gaming machine cabinet. The lower door can be fully removable from the gaming machine, can facilitate access to an internal belly region, and can include a tethered locking arrangement having rotary latches, stationary pins, and a tether. The cash door includes a virtual pivot hinge opening arrangement that moves the cash door in a swivel motion from a closed position to an open position, where the swivel motion of the cash door is about a virtual axis having a center of rotation for which no physical component passes therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: AGS LLCInventors: James Ely Tillery, Kevin Berwick Green
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Patent number: 11568707Abstract: A gaming machine is provided with easily installable and serviceable components. The gaming machine includes a gaming cabinet having an interior space which houses components of the gaming machine, such as a subwoofer of an audio system. The subwoofer is securely mounted to the cabinet via a simple sliding mount which is secured in place with a locking element via a single fastener.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: AGS LLCInventors: Mark Robert Brandau, Brian Edward Tovar
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Patent number: 11568708Abstract: A gaming machine includes a video display mounting configuration, such as for mounting a secondary video display to a base cabinet having a first or primary video display. The mounting comprises connectors on a display frame which drop into mounts of a display support. The mounting may include a locking mechanism. An alignment configuration is also provided, such as for aligning different gaming machine components such as two video displays and/or light rings, trim or the like, relative to one another in three dimensions.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: AGS LLCInventors: Adam Daniel Ambrecht, Brian Edward Tovar
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Publication number: 20230005332Abstract: A bonus providing device, including a bonus providing element, distinct from underlying game play that enables a plurality of players unique benefits to an underlying game winning outcome or triggering outcome is provided. The bonus providing element provides indications of at least three individual random indicators, wherein at least two of the at least three individual random indicators are linear, each one of the plurality of players being associated with a player station, the player stations being divided into a plurality of groups, with a predetermined number of player stations being associated with each of the groups, The three individual random indicators including an identification of a randomly selected one of the groups, an identification of a randomly selected one of the player stations associated with the randomly selected one of the groups, and an identification of a randomly selected parameter associated with a bonus award.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Applicant: AGS LLCInventor: Jamie Abrahamson
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Patent number: 11532209Abstract: A bonus providing element distinct from an underlying game enables bonus awards to players at two or more player positions of the underlying game based upon receipt of a predetermined triggering outcome in the underlying game by the bonus providing element providing an indication of at least three individual random indicators, such as: a) a first random indicator configured to provide an identification of a first award to be awarded to qualifying players of the players of the underlying game; b) a second random indicator configured to provide an identification of a single one of the two or more player positions; and c) a third random indicator configured to provide an identification of a second award to be awarded to the player at the single one of the two or more player positions indicated by the second random indictor.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: AGS LLCInventor: Jamie Abrahamson
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Patent number: 11501604Abstract: Gaming tables that support wager-based gaming are provided with input receiving devices that are structured to intuitively message to players what kind of wagers are permitted at which betting positions and when and then to automatically detect timely placement of such wagers at corresponding betting positions. This allows for faster unfolding of gaming action in that player confusion is minimized with respect to which wagers are being called for, when and where. An integrated compact sensor system is provided occupying slightly more table area than that needed for supporting wagering tokens of different denominations. The sensor system includes a large array of full color pixels (e.g., RGB capable pixels) for messaging to the players and proximity detection functionality for detecting 3D player hand gestures.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: AGS LLCInventors: Rachel Wolf Kroupp, Ezra Christopher MacKenna, John Victor Zambito
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Patent number: D969926Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: AGS LLCInventors: Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Karl Frederick Zedell, Mark Robert Brandau, Kevin Lee Hohman, Sigmund Hyunjai Lee, Ariel David Turgel, Daniel Kendall Harden, Zachary Grey Stephanchick
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Patent number: D978810Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: AGS LLCInventors: Sigmund Hyunjai Lee, Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Daniel Kendall Harden, Benjamin Martin
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Patent number: D992520Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: AGS LLCInventors: Sigmund Hyunjai Lee, Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Daniel Kendall Harden, Benjamin Martin
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Patent number: D999292Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: AGS LLCInventors: Robert John Rynda, Andrew James Jacobs, John Paul Anton, Adam Walter Hungerbuhler, Craig Walter Oeding, Daniel Arthur Hopkinson