Patents Assigned to IGT
  • Augmented reality integration in electronic gaming machines
    Patent number: 11625974
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine according to some embodiments includes a processing circuit, a display screen coupled to the processing circuit, and a transceiver coupled to the processing circuit and providing wireless communications with an augmented reality (AR) display device that is separate from the electronic gaming machine. The processing circuit displays a game element in a first screen area of the display screen, and transmits, via the transceiver, screen location data to the AR display device identifying a second screen area on the display screen, other than the first screen area, that is available for the AR display device to overlay AR graphics in a field of view of a user of the AR display device without overlaying the game element displayed in the first screen area of the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Dwayne Nelson
  • Electronic gaming machine with dedicated payment acceptors for different betting opportunities
    Patent number: 11625981
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine with a plurality of separate payment acceptors to keep funds received for different betting purposes separate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Kevin Higgins
  • Multi-user gaze detection at electronic gaming devices
    Patent number: 11625973
    Abstract: Gaming devices, systems, and methods are provided. The gaming device includes a display device, an image capture device to capture images of eyes of multiple users of the device, and a processor circuit. A memory includes machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor circuit, cause the processor circuit to generate, for each of the images of eyes of the plurality of users, gaze direction data corresponding to gaze directions of the eyes of each of the plurality of users and, based on the gaze direction data of the plurality of users, modify a gaming device function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: David Froy, Jr., Stefan Keilwert, Michael Russ
  • Directional wireless communication
    Patent number: 11623136
    Abstract: A method for establishing communication between a portable electronic device and an electronic gaming machine within a gaming environment includes receiving wireless signal data transmitted from the portable electronic device, determining a wireless signal strength relative to the electronic gaming machine based on the wireless signal data, and based on a determination that the wireless signal strength relative to the electronic gaming machine has increased, exceeded a predetermined threshold level, and leveled off for an amount of time exceeding a time threshold after becoming stronger, initiating a wireless communication link between the electronic gaming machine and the portable electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Steven G. LeMay
  • Device orientation based gaming experience
    Patent number: 11620869
    Abstract: Disclosed are various methods for determining a wagering game to play on a client device. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving data describing an orientation of a client device and determining, based at least upon the orientation of the client device, a number of symbols to display in connection with a wagering game. The number of paylines to provide may be determined based on the orientation of the client device. An outcome of the wagering game may be determined based at least in part on the determined number of symbols and the determined number of paylines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Dwayne Nelson
  • Gaming systems and methods for providing reel-spin game enhancement features
    Patent number: 11620873
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for providing reel-spin game enhancement features. A player enrolled with a subscription service server is presented with an opportunity to enhance game features associated with a gaming device after a result of a game played on the gaming device is determined. The gaming device determines that only when the result of the game played corresponds to a predetermined outcome, a respin option becomes available for the player. This option is rendered as an offer for the player to activate a game enhancement feature for a respin during a subsequent play of the reel-spin game. The game enhancement features include holding or locking a symbol in the reels of the reel-spin game, adding a score multiplier, or adding a modified symbol to a particular position or reel, during the respin of the subsequent play of the reel-spin game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Elisabeth Kiss, Susanne Kiss, Julia-Ines Lerchbaumer, Bruno Rittner, Michael Russ
  • Internet remote game server
    Patent number: 11620871
    Abstract: A gaming system, including a game outcome server, an account handling device and a client device communicatively coupled via network, is described. The game outcome server may be operable to send command, instructions, data or combinations thereof that allow an interface for a wager-based game to be generated on the client device, generate a game outcome for the wager-based game that is displayed on the client device and generate an update to a player balance maintained on the account handling device. The account handling device is operable to provide gaming services related to the game play on the client device including a) web-site hosting where the web-site lists available gaming services including games provided by the game outcome server, b) accounting, c) money handling including player account management and d) player eligibility functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Paul Douglas Miltenberger, Kaushal Sheth, Ryan Michael Fissell, Carmen Atienza Tan, Andy O. Bryson, Shanmugapriyan Devaraj, Theodore Yuchiang Cheng
  • Gaming systems and methods for providing a sliding symbol operation
    Patent number: 11615668
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for providing sliding symbol operations in grid-base games. The sliding symbol operations allow a player of the gaming device to move, by sliding or dragging, a particular symbol from one cell to another in an array of cells between plays of the grid-based game. Movement of the particular symbol from one cell to another allows a player to control their chances of winning and alter the proposed payouts for winning sequences of symbols for at least one subsequent play of the grid-based game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Chris Peterson, Nick Hillstrom, Yu Chong, Nathan Ajhar
  • Gaming systems and methods for providing reel-spin game enhancement features
    Patent number: 11610454
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for providing reel-spin game enhancement features. A player enrolled with a subscription service server is presented with an opportunity to enhance game features associated with a gaming device after a result of a game played on the gaming device is determined. The gaming device determines that only when the result of the game played corresponds to a predetermined outcome, a respin option becomes available for the player. This option is rendered as an offer for the player to activate a game enhancement feature for a respin during a subsequent play of the reel-spin game. The game enhancement features include holding or locking a symbol in the reels of the reel-spin game, adding a score multiplier, or adding a modified symbol to a particular position or reel, during the respin of the subsequent play of the reel-spin game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Elisabeth Kiss, Susanne Kiss, Julia-Ines Lerchbaumer, Bruno Rittner, Michael Russ
  • Gaming system and method for providing variable timers to make inputs
    Patent number: 11610450
    Abstract: Gaming systems that employ a timer to make one or more inputs, wherein different amounts of time of the timer are based on different inputs made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Vincent S. Lai, Patrick Danielson, Dwayne R. Nelson
  • Slot machine implementing a mirror operation
    Patent number: 11605267
    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 predetermined mirror symbol has landed within a predetermined symbol area and then repositioning symbols within an array of symbols according to a mirror operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Chris Peterson, Nick Hillstrom, Nathan Ajhar
  • System and method for modifying gaming establishment mobile device application
    Patent number: 11605263
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a system that enables a mobile device running a mobile device application to communicate with different gaming establishment components and modify the mobile device application functionality and/or the mobile device application appearance based on different data received from different gaming establishment components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Erik Petersen, Christopher M. Levin
  • User identification verification in association with transferring funds to a gaming table
    Patent number: 11600140
    Abstract: Systems and methods that verify an identity of a user in association with a transfer of an amount of funds from a gaming establishment account associated with the user to a gaming table component associated with a gaming establishment gaming table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Class II bingo gaming system with limited term persistent elements
    Patent number: 11600148
    Abstract: Gaming systems and methods which utilize zero, one or more limited term persistent elements in association with a Class II bingo game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Cyrus Luciano
  • System and method with sporting event wager virtual tickets for sporting event wagers
    Patent number: 11600145
    Abstract: Gaming systems and methods which utilize sporting event wager virtual tickets in association with placed sporting event wagers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Dwayne R. Nelson, Jeffery Shepherd
  • Gaming system and method for modifying a play of a wagering game based on a sporting event
    Patent number: 11600147
    Abstract: Gaming systems and methods which utilize the results of a sporting event to modify one or more parameters of a play of a game, such as a wagering game of chance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Jeffrey Knox
  • Group gaming events at gaming devices
    Patent number: 11600143
    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: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Christina Spaulding, Alison Kenney
  • System and method for utilizing mobile device to provide service window functionality
    Patent number: 11594097
    Abstract: A system that utilizes an application running on a mobile device to provide a service window associated with a gaming establishment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Kevin M. Higgins, Dwayne R. Nelson
  • Casino floor service management system and method
    Patent number: 11594100
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a casino floor service management system and method that integrates with a casino management system of a casino and leverages the knowledge and experience of casino floor service management system users, such as technicians, floor attendants, and hostesses, to efficiently resolve service floor events in a timely manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Eugene Bond, Gandalf Hudlow, Jie Zhou, Lu Zhao, Naibin Song, Hua Cheng, Guangzhuang Xie, Wei Yan, Wei Gong
  • Gaming system and method for increasing the likelihood of obtaining a designated outcome for a play of a game
    Patent number: 11587406
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a gaming system and method for increasing the likelihood of obtaining a designated outcome for a play of a game. In certain embodiments, when a triggering event occurs in association with a play of a game, the gaming system increases the likelihood of obtaining a designated outcome for that play of the game. In other embodiments, when a triggering event occurs in association with a play of a game, the gaming system increases the likelihood of obtaining a designated outcome for another play of the game, such as the next play of the game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Benjamin R. Holsclaw, Trevor Lynch, Bradford Brown