Patents Assigned to IGT
  • Patent number: 12361794
    Abstract: Gaming systems and method that provide a banked bonus player selection feature including a symbol display such as a displayed wheel having a plurality of displayed player selectable sections for a play of a multi-player game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Chris Peterson, Nick Hillstrom, Yu Chong, Nathan Ajhar
  • Patent number: 12361482
    Abstract: A system that facilitates a transfer of an amount of funds associated with a line of credit to a gaming establishment account and then to a gaming device, such as an EGM, wherein the amount of funds associated with the line of credit is separately tracked by the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250225842
    Abstract: A secondary progressive award is provided for a wide-area progressive wagering game as a celebration or participation award. A processor circuit determines that a winning condition for a wide-area progressive wagering game has been satisfied for a gaming device of a plurality of eligible gaming devices. For each gaming device of the plurality of eligible gaming devices, it is determined whether the gaming device meets a predetermined activity condition, and a subset of active gaming devices of the plurality of eligible gaming devices is determined based on the active gaming devices meeting the predetermined activity condition. A primary progressive award is provided to a user of the a gaming device associated with the winning condition, and a secondary progressive award is provided to each gaming device of the determined subset of active gaming devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Joe MOORE, Christian THEUMER, Timothy SHORTALL
  • Patent number: 12354442
    Abstract: Gaming systems and methods providing a symbol accumulation sequence that includes one or more different enhancement features. The different enhancement features can be provided individually or can be provided in any suitable combination of these different enhancement features including two or more or all of the different enhancement features combined together. The different enhancement features can include a multi-function sequence triggering symbol enhancement feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: David Shane, Michael DeBrabander
  • Patent number: 12354441
    Abstract: Gaming systems and methods that maintain a progressive award associated with a guaranteed minimum quantity of generations of a designated symbol, certain of which are associated with an additional award.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Timothy Kennedy, Robin Hare, Justin Valvo
  • Patent number: 12354435
    Abstract: A system that interconnects multiple accounts associated with a gaming establishment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Kevin M. Higgins, Jeffery Shepherd, Erik Petersen, Lance Yuan, Mike Zarlenga, Dwayne A. Davis, Sina Miri
  • Patent number: 12354440
    Abstract: A system configured to manage progressive pools can include a processor circuit and a memory coupled to the processor circuit. The memory includes machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor circuit, cause the system to perform operations. The operations include determining to cease operation of a first progressive game on a first electronic gaming machines (“EGM”). The first progressive game can be associated with a first progressive pool. The operations can further include, allocating a portion of the first progressive pool to a second progressive pool associated with a second progressive game based on a characteristic of the first progressive game and a characteristic of the second progressive game. The operations further include, responsive to determining to cease operation of the first progressive game, transmitting a message to the first EGM, the message including instructions to cease operation of the first progressive game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Kevin Higgins, Christopher Levin
  • Patent number: 12354447
    Abstract: The gaming systems and methods provide selective re-deals for no-hold initial hands for plays of a draw poker game, wherein each of the no-hold initial hands includes no pairs of Jacks or better, no two pairs, no three-of-a-kinds, no four-of-a-kinds, no straights, no flushes, no full houses, no straight flushes, no matching pairs of 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, 7s, 8s, 9s, or 10s, no combinations of cards that are missing one card from forming a straight, a flush, or a straight flush, and no royal cards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Kera Skillings, Benjamin R. Holsclaw, Christopher John Richardson, Bradley James Fredella
  • Patent number: 12354112
    Abstract: Systems and methods that operate to enable tipping with gaming establishment retail and entertainment purchases made in association with a gaming establishment fund management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250218252
    Abstract: A secondary progressive award is provided for a wide-area progressive wagering game as a celebration or participation award. A processor circuit determines that a winning condition for a wide-area progressive wagering game has been satisfied for a gaming device of a plurality of eligible gaming devices. For each gaming device of the plurality of eligible gaming devices, it is determined whether the gaming device meets a predetermined activity condition, and a subset of active gaming devices of the plurality of eligible gaming devices is determined based on the active gaming devices meeting the predetermined activity condition. A primary progressive award is provided to a user of the a gaming device associated with the winning condition, and a secondary progressive award is provided to each gaming device of the determined subset of active gaming devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Joe MOORE, Christian THEUMER, Timothy SHORTALL
  • Patent number: 12347280
    Abstract: A gaming system having a gaming system including a housing and a reel assembly positioned in and supported by the housing, the reel assembly including a frame, a plurality of individually rotatable reels supported by the frame, a plurality of reel dividers positioned adjacent to the respective sides of the reels, and a plurality of selectively and individually illuminable outcome indicators respectively connected to and supported by the respective reel dividers and configured to indicate symbols of winning symbol combinations that occur on the reels during plays of a slot game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: William Bussick
  • Patent number: 12347266
    Abstract: A gaming device includes a processor circuit and a memory including machine-readable instructions. When executed by the processor circuit, the instructions cause the processor circuit to access a game software package comprising a plurality of configurations of a wagering game. The instructions further cause the processor circuit to determine whether the gaming device is authorized to access a first subset of configurations of the wagering game. The instructions further cause the processor circuit to, based on the determination that the gaming device is authorized to access the first subset of configurations of the wagering game, enable play of the first subset of configurations of the wagering game at the gaming device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Dwayne Nelson
  • Patent number: 12347276
    Abstract: Systems and methods which provide a player zero, one or more awards based on the accumulation of triggering elements independent of the generation of a plurality of symbols of a plurality of reels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Franz Pierer
  • Patent number: D1083948
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Amber Hughes, Zachary Cooper
  • Patent number: D1083989
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Zachery Wilson, Leilani Bailey, Jeffrey Shaw, Megan McGiboney
  • Patent number: D1084007
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Daniel Helzer, Gianpaulo Sorreta, Bradford Brown
  • Patent number: D1081680
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Alejandro Parrilla Pereira
  • Patent number: D1081692
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Klaus Hufnagl-Abraham
  • Patent number: D1081711
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Cornelius Wilhelmus de Wijs
  • Patent number: D1081804
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    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, Thang Duc Doan, Matthew Arbie Franich, Tai Rosander