Patents Assigned to AGS LLC
  • Patent number: 11954976
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventor: Jamie Abrahamson
  • Patent number: 11941948
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Price Pawlak, Eric Ivan Effros
  • Publication number: 20240078875
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Oliver C Crispino, Billy Tam
  • Patent number: 11900760
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventor: Kevin Lee Hohman
  • Patent number: 11900761
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: James Ely Tillery, Kevin Berwick Green
  • Patent number: 11869300
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventor: Gerald Francis Wasinger
  • Publication number: 20230351859
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Jason D. Elison, Richard J. LaBrocca
  • Patent number: 11734989
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Sigmund Hyunjai Lee, Karl Frederick Zedell, Jr., Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Ian Robert Scott, Wei Gu, Daniel Kendall Harden, Ariel David Turgel
  • Patent number: 11676451
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventor: Jamie Allan Abrahamson
  • Publication number: 20230154275
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: AGS LLC
    Inventors: James Ely Tillery, Kevin Berwick Green
  • Patent number: 11587392
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: James Ely Tillery, Kevin Berwick Green
  • Patent number: 11568707
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Mark Robert Brandau, Brian Edward Tovar
  • Patent number: 11568708
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Adam Daniel Ambrecht, Brian Edward Tovar
  • Publication number: 20230005332
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: AGS LLC
    Inventor: Jamie Abrahamson
  • Patent number: 11532209
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventor: Jamie Abrahamson
  • Patent number: 11501604
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Rachel Wolf Kroupp, Ezra Christopher MacKenna, John Victor Zambito
  • Patent number: D969926
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Karl Frederick Zedell, Mark Robert Brandau, Kevin Lee Hohman, Sigmund Hyunjai Lee, Ariel David Turgel, Daniel Kendall Harden, Zachary Grey Stephanchick
  • Patent number: D978810
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Sigmund Hyunjai Lee, Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Daniel Kendall Harden, Benjamin Martin
  • Patent number: D992520
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Sigmund Hyunjai Lee, Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Daniel Kendall Harden, Benjamin Martin
  • Patent number: D999292
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Robert John Rynda, Andrew James Jacobs, John Paul Anton, Adam Walter Hungerbuhler, Craig Walter Oeding, Daniel Arthur Hopkinson