Patents Assigned to IGT
  • System and method for providing awards based on dynamic reels
    Patent number: 11699323
    Abstract: Systems and methods which provide a player zero, one or more awards based on a variable quantity of symbol display positions associated with one or more reels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: David Ceniceroz, Julianne Rodgers
  • System and method for managing gaming establishment benefit accumulations
    Patent number: 11699330
    Abstract: Systems and methods which dynamically modify a rate of accruing gaming establishment points based on a gaming establishment occupancy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Erik Petersen, Jeffery Shepherd, Rachelle Rabago
  • Secure predetermined game generation
    Patent number: 11694505
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling secure automated production and redemption of predetermined games of chance with multiple play venues or dimensions, wherein such systems and methods can provide, for example, lottery games (e.g., instant tickets), charitable gaming (e.g., raffles, pull-tabs), casino environments (e.g., “Class II” gaming), Internet gaming (e.g., poker, online instant tickets), etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: IGT Global Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Schertzer, Bruce Coffman, Kenneth E. Irwin, Jr., David Knechtges
  • System and method for providing awards based on dynamic reels
    Patent number: 11694595
    Abstract: Systems and methods which provide a player zero, one or more awards based on a variable quantity of symbol display positions associated with one or more reels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: David Ceniceroz, Julianne Rodgers
  • Cross channel lottery game promotion
    Patent number: 11694506
    Abstract: A system configured to receive a triggering event occurrence message based on an occurrence of a lottery game promotional message triggering event in association with an electronic gaming machine and a player mobile device of a player, determine whether to communicate a lottery game promotional message to the player mobile device, use player data, player mobile device data, and lottery game data to create the lottery game promotional message, and communicate the lottery game promotional message to the player mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: IGT Global Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Bernd Wenzl
  • Gaming system providing multiple player selectable tournaments
    Patent number: 11694509
    Abstract: Gaming systems and methods that provide multiple player selectable tournaments that can be created by the operator of the gaming system or by one or more players of one or more of the gaming machines of the gaming system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Xiaochong Wang, Hujun Dong
  • Extra hands and extra duplications for multi-hand poker
    Patent number: 11694522
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the gaming systems and methods provide plays of a multi-hand poker game where extra hands can be added and/or where extra card duplications can be made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Ernest W. Moody, Michael Fields, Yoohwan Hwang
  • Gaming system, gaming device, and method providing one or more alternative wager propositions if a credit balance is less than a designated wager amount
    Patent number: 11694507
    Abstract: Various embodiments of gaming systems, gaming devices, and methods of the present disclosure provide one or more alternative wagering propositions to a player when the player's credit balance is less than (or, in certain embodiments, less than or equal to) a designated wager amount. If the player accepts one of the alternative wager propositions, the player risks an amount of the player's remaining credit balance for a chance to win an alternative award. If the player wins the alternative award, the gaming system enables the player to play one or more plays of the wagering game at the designated wager amount. If the player does not win the alternative award, the gaming system reduces the player's credit balance by the amount risked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Adam M. Singer, Mark C. Nicely
  • Slot machine implementing a mirror operation
    Patent number: 11688244
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to computational devices and, in particular, toward a computational device, system, and method of operating a computational device. The method may include determining that a mirror symbol has landed within a predetermined symbol area and then implementing a bonus spin and mirror operation in response thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Chris Peterson, Nick Hillstrom, Nathan Ajhar
  • Providing navigation and construction of sports wagers on a player terminal and related systems and methods
    Patent number: 11688227
    Abstract: A system, computer-implemented method and gaming device are provided. A system includes a processor circuit, a memory coupled to the processor circuit. The memory includes machine-readable instructions that cause the processor circuit to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes two axis display control to determine a selected event group from multiple event groups and to determine multiple events from multiple events, receive wager amount data and wager type data via the GUI, after receiving the wager amount data and the wager type data via the GUI, receive event selection inputs corresponding to the events and determine an aggregate total amount of wager investment and winnings based on outcomes of selected ones of the events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Vladimir Jovanovic, David Pricker, Borivoj Grujic, Vladimir Djokic, IV
  • System and method for exchanging gaming establishment funds for checks
    Patent number: 11688238
    Abstract: Systems and methods that enable a user to obtain a check in exchange for a redemption of a ticket voucher associated with an amount of funds and/or a withdrawal of an amount of funds associated with a gaming establishment account associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Gaming system and method providing enhanced award game
    Patent number: 11688239
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the gaming systems and methods provide plays of an enhanced award game, and in certain embodiments an enhanced award poker game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Ernest W. Moody, Yoohwan Hwang
  • System and method for utilizing a mobile device to log a user into a gaming establishment system
    Patent number: 11688236
    Abstract: A system which enables a user to log into one or more gaming establishment management systems using both of a biometric identifier capture device of a gaming establishment device and also using a biometric identifier capture device of an identified user's mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Stewart Thoeni, James A. Vasquez, Daniel Landry
  • GROUP GAMING EVENTS AT GAMING DEVICES
    Publication number: 20230196881
    Abstract: A primary game having a plurality of outcomes is provided to a first player of a first gaming device. In response to one of the plurality of outcomes, a first game asset for a secondary game is provided to the first player. The secondary game includes a contest between the first player having the first game asset and a second player having a second game asset, and an outcome of the contest of the secondary game is based at least in part on comparing a first asset value of the first game asset and a second asset value of the second game asset. In some examples, the secondary game may be a fantasy sports game, a deck building card game, or a scavenger hunt game, in which some or all of the assets are obtained via the primary game(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne NELSON, Christina SPAULDING, Alison KENNEY
  • System and method for utilizing a mobile device to facilitate fund transfers between a cashless wagering account and a gaming establishment retail account
    Patent number: 11682263
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a system that utilizes a mobile device to facilitate the transfer of funds between a gaming establishment retail account and a cashless wagering account, and further between the cashless wagering account and an electronic gaming machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Jeffery Shepherd
  • Lottery gaming system
    Patent number: 11682268
    Abstract: A lottery gaming system that enables a player to select any one of a plurality of different geographic areas in which they predict that a designated winning lottery ticket will be purchased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: IGT GLOBAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bradford Heathcote, Aaron Michael Koll, Sarah Simpkins
  • Enhanced electronic gaming machine out of service mode
    Patent number: 11676448
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a gaming system, device, and method supportive of an enhanced electronic gaming machine “Out of Service” mode. A gaming system, device, and method are provided that receive a user input that invokes, for a player, a service mode for a gaming device during a gameplay session, place the gaming device into the service mode, generate an electronic record based on invoking the service mode for the player, and output a notification based on placing the gaming device into the service mode. The electronic record may include a set of parameters associated with the service mode. The notification may include information describing at least a portion of the electronic record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Paul Johnson
  • Electronic gaming machines with dynamic auto play mode methods enabled by AI-based playstyle models
    Patent number: 11676453
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a gaming system, device, and method supportive of an enhanced electronic gaming machine auto play mode. A gaming system, device, and method are provided that identify data associated with a set of previous gameplay sessions, the data including a set of previous gameplay decisions associated with the set of previous gameplay sessions; generate a set of playstyle models based on the set of previous gameplay decisions; and enable a gameplay mode in which a playstyle model of the set of playstyle models may be utilized to provide automated player inputs to a gameplay session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: David Froy, Karen Van Niekerk, Thomas Trenkler, Adam Narducci, Michael Russ
  • Gaming machine
    Patent number: D990574
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Jean-Pierre Legras, Charles W. Johnson, Steven McGahn, John Leagh Beadell
  • Gaming machine
    Patent number: D990577
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Anthony John Baerlocher, Stewart Thoeni, Christopher D. Carlisle, Julia Janeen Angst, Jean-Pierre Legras, John Leagh Beadell, Scott Hamilton Jones, Juan Carlos Hernandez, Megan Eileen Oehlert, Stephen Gus Gill, Thang Duc Doan, Matthew Arbie Franich, Tai Rosander