Abstract: A system can be capable of receiving electronic ticket issuance information from a first gaming device, where the electronic ticket issuance information includes an identifier of the first gaming device that issued an electronic ticket, a time that the electronic ticket was issued, and an electronic ticket value associated with an issued state of the electronic ticket. The system may further be capable of tracking a status of the electronic ticket to determine that the electronic ticket has transitioned from the issued state to a redeemable state, determining that the electronic ticket has been presented for redemption and, in response thereto, causing the electronic ticket value to change to a second electronic ticket value associated with a redeemed state of the electronic ticket.
Abstract: Systems and methods that provides zero, one or more non-fungible tokens to a player in addition to any awards provided to that player in association with a play of a game.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 20, 2021
Date of Patent:
November 28, 2023
Assignee:
IGT
Inventors:
Dwayne R. Nelson, Kevin Higgins, Ethan Edsall
Abstract: Gaming systems and methods for determining which features, if any, to activate in association with one or more plays of a game based on a current value of a progressive award.
Abstract: Gaming systems and methods for determining which features, if any, to activate in association with one or more plays of a game based on a current value of a progressive award.
Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a system that utilizes a primary or central gaming establishment account to accumulate funds from one or more secondary or peripheral gaming establishment accounts and escrow such funds prior to use.
Abstract: A gaming system, computer-implemented method and gaming device are operable enhance player experience using image data. A system includes a processor circuit and a memory including machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor circuit, cause the processor circuit to perform operations. Such operations include receiving, from a camera, image data that includes visual signals corresponding to a player and determining player action components from the image data. The player action components include multiple different player attributes that correspond to an emotional state of the player. Operations further include, based on the different player attributes, determining a predicted action of the player and causing a casino related action that corresponds to the predicted action.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 29, 2021
Date of Patent:
November 14, 2023
Assignee:
IGT
Inventors:
David Small, David Froy, Jr., Michael Russ, Stefan Keilwert, Sven Aurich, Fayez Idris, Daniel Landry
Abstract: A system that facilitates the transfer of an amount funds between one or more gaming establishment accounts associated with a player and one or more gaming table components associated with a gaming establishment gaming table currently associated with the player.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 2, 2021
Date of Patent:
November 14, 2023
Assignee:
IGT
Inventors:
Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins, Erik Petersen
Abstract: A full-color protected document, and methods and systems for making same, secured by a removable Scratch-Off Coating, where the protection against document alteration and/or copy type attacks is provided by digitally imaging Benday patterns and/or digital imaged background patterns around the variable indicia. By printing Benday patterns and/or imaged background using the same process color imagers, usability and integrity of the protected document are achieved relative to the consumer's perspective while at the same time providing a more secure, less expensive, and more aesthetically pleasing document design.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 13, 2022
Date of Patent:
November 7, 2023
Assignee:
IGT Global Solutions Corporation
Inventors:
Joseph Brandimore, Kenneth E. Irwin, Jr., Amy Kathleen Pettis
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:
January 17, 2023
Date of Patent:
November 7, 2023
Assignee:
IGT
Inventors:
Dwayne Nelson, Christina Spaulding, Alison Kenney
Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are operable to include selecting a virtual prize container from a plurality of virtual prize containers that each correspond to one a plurality of prize levels in response to detecting a game event in a wagering game. The selected virtual prize container including information corresponding to the prize level and concealing a prize that is in the virtual prize container is awarded to the player. An input from the player that corresponds to the selected virtual prize container is received. In response to a player achievement level being at a minimum or higher level that corresponds to the prize level of the selected virtual prize container, the prize is awarded to the player.
Abstract: A gaming system and method that offers different sporting event wagering interfaces for different users based on each user's respective expertise with placing wagers on outcomes of sporting events.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 21, 2019
Date of Patent:
October 31, 2023
Assignee:
IGT
Inventors:
William Salivar, Dwayne R. Nelson, William Brosnan
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:
May 15, 2023
Date of Patent:
October 31, 2023
Assignee:
IGT Global Solutions Corporation
Inventors:
Jeffrey Schertzer, Bruce Coffman, Kenneth E. Irwin, Jr., David Knechtges
Abstract: Systems and methods which utilize a player account to place one or more wagers on one or more sporting event wagering opportunities remote from a gaming establishment sports book such as in association with a hotel room system.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 29, 2022
Date of Patent:
October 31, 2023
Assignee:
IGT
Inventors:
Dwayne R. Nelson, Steven LeMay, Kevin Higgins
Abstract: Systems and methods which employ one or more triggering events that occur in association with an expansion of a displayed portion of a symbol display position matrix and an activation of one or more features associated with one or more elements of the expanded symbol display position matrix.
Abstract: A system and method for facilitating an instant lottery game with both physical and virtual instant lottery tickets, and more particularly to a system and method for facilitating virtual instant lottery ticket creation, virtual instant lottery ticket selling, virtual instant lottery ticket transferring, virtual instant lottery ticket scratching, and virtual instant lottery ticket redemption. The instant lottery ticket system and method of various embodiments provides the seamless integration with existing physical instant lottery game and ticket systems (and processes thereof), substantially the same overall player experience as provided with physical instant lottery tickets.
Abstract: Gaming systems that provide an award in association with a play of a card game wherein a playing card is determined via a first determination of a suit of that playing card and a separate second determination of a rank of that playing card.
Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a gaming system and method providing a multi-hand poker wagering game with an award modifier bonus feature, and wherein in various embodiments the award modifiers are multipliers.
Abstract: A gaming system that provides a player symbol set selection feature including a plurality of simultaneously displayed separate player selectable symbol sets for a play of a game. For the play of the game, enables the player to select one of the displayed symbol sets and after the player selection, the gaming system determines and causes each of the symbol sets (including the player selected symbol set and the other non-player selected symbol sets) to display a separate randomly determined outcome for that symbol set for that play of the game. The gaming system provides the player any determined awards for the player selected symbol set and additionally compares any determined awards for the player selected symbol set and any determined awards for the other (non-player selected) symbol sets for that play of the game. Based on that comparison, the gaming system can provide the player one or more comparison awards.