Patents Examined by David L Lewis
  • Patent number: 11776359
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods for designating game indicia locations during current gaming events to enhance game indicia at the identified positions in subsequent gaming events. In a poker context, card positions in a first poker game may be randomly selected, and if any are randomly selected, enhanced cards are repeatedly provided in periodic or random intervals of subsequent poker games at corresponding card positions until a termination event occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventor: Bradley Berman
  • Patent number: 11769365
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to gaming systems and methods for placing one or more sports bets at an electronic gaming machine (“EGM”) and for redeeming any winnings for one or more placed sports bet at an EGM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Errol A. Ramos, Mathew H. Henderson, Paul C. Ewing, Erik B. Chalko, David C. Pence, Tyrell J. Atterberry, Kimberly A. Carestia
  • Patent number: 11769376
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for repurposing existing Class III electronic gaming device components for use in Class II electronic gaming device systems, as the terms “Class II” and “Class III” are defined in the regulations relating to the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of the United States of America.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventor: James R. Acres
  • Patent number: 11769378
    Abstract: A multi-sport challenge system may include a multi-sport facility, a sport challenge menu including a plurality of selectable sport challenges, and a fee/prize subsystem. The multi-sport facility may include a plurality of sport grounds, wherein each of the sport grounds includes a full, partial, or simulated sport grounds. The sport challenge menu may include an entry fee and financial prize corresponding to each selectable sport challenge of the menu, wherein the entry fee is to be paid by a participant that selects the corresponding sport challenge for an opportunity to attempt the sport challenge. The financial prize may be awarded to the participant if the attempt successfully completes the sport challenge. The fee/prize subsystem may be configured to receive sport challenge selections made by participants and to collect the corresponding entry fees from the participants and output corresponding financial prizes upon successful completion of the selected sport challenges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: BATTLE COURT JAI ALAI, LLC
    Inventor: Scott Savin
  • Patent number: 11763632
    Abstract: A method includes displaying a first level game symbol array and a second level game symbol array through a display system of a reel-type gaming machine. The first level game symbol array is produced by populating at least some game symbol locations included in an initial array of game symbol locations. Any such populated location may be populated with a first trigger symbol including a representation of a single-symbol reel. The second level game symbol array is displayed by, for each respective game symbol location populated with the first trigger symbol in the first level game symbol array, conducting a respective single-symbol reel spin simulation of the representation of the single-symbol reel. A bonus play is displayed through the gaming machine at least in part in response to a predefined number of second trigger symbols being included in the second level game symbol array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Everi Games, Inc.
    Inventor: Loren Nelson
  • Patent number: 11763625
    Abstract: A method of gaming comprising: selecting, in each whole reel symbol game round, symbols for display to a player in a set of display positions, subsets of the display positions corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of reels set side by side, by: selecting a whole reel symbol from a whole reel symbol set for at least one of the reels, such that the whole reel symbol is at all display positions of the at least one reel, and, selecting symbols for each of the other reels from respective ones of a plurality of reel symbol sets, each reel symbol set comprised of a plurality of different symbols; and determining an outcome for each game round based on the selected symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventor: Hyong Joo Kim
  • Patent number: 11759710
    Abstract: A first game which advances independently of a plurality of opponent's game processes is started at the same start timings as the opponents. In the first game, a player object is controlled, a time limit is decreased with elapse of time, a time limit is increased if the player object has successfully performed a predetermined action, and advancement of the first game is ended when the time limit reaches zero. In addition, first game state data is transmitted to second information processing apparatuses, and second game state data is acquired from the second information processing apparatuses. Then, a display image including a first image based on the first game state data and a second image based on the second game state data is sequentially generated. If the first game is ended, evaluation relative to the opponents is performed in accordance with elapsed time since the start of the first game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryuichi Nakada, Akira Kinashi
  • Patent number: 11756371
    Abstract: Mechanisms comprising: receiving first bet information for a first bet from a first player's device, the first bet information corresponding to at least a first position on a roulette wheel; receiving second bet information for a second bet from a second player's device, the second bet information corresponding to at least a second position on the roulette wheel that is different from the first position; determining that the roulette wheel and a ball on the roulette wheel have been spun; randomly selecting a first selected position on the wheel, wherein the first selected position is the same as the first position; determining a first payout for first position and a second payout for the second position, wherein the first payout is higher than the second payout; determining that the ball has fallen in the first position; and indicating that the first player is to be paid at the first payout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Evolution Malta Limited
    Inventor: Todd Haushalter
  • Patent number: 11752439
    Abstract: This application discloses a virtual item movement control method performed at a terminal. The terminal displays a target virtual item in a virtual scene, the target virtual item including a flying virtual item and a carrier virtual item. After determining a target movement track of the target virtual item according to a first display position and a first speed of the target virtual item and at least one of an environmental condition or a health value of the flying virtual item, the terminal controls the target virtual item to move according to the target movement track. After the carrier virtual item is in a landed state, the terminal determines a second target movement track of the carrier virtual item according to a second display position and a second speed, and then controls the carrier virtual item to move in the virtual scene according to the second target movement track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Yourui Fan
  • Patent number: 11749059
    Abstract: A touchless gaming system includes one or more gaming stations, a registration device at each gaming station, and a game processor, as well as a personal electronic device used by each participant in a game offered by the touchless gaming system. The touchless gaming system enables an individual to participate in a live game (e.g., within a casino, etc.) while socially distancing the participants and eliminating the need for physical contact with objects that could infections agents. Touchless gaming methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Competition Interactive, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Steelman, Keith Winters, Matthew Mahaney
  • Patent number: 11749067
    Abstract: A gaming system configured to perform operations that include receiving, electronically, a first coded identifier, and providing, for presentation, on a display device of a mobile device, the first coded identifier for detection by a wagering game machine. The operations can further include detecting a second coded identifier presented by the wagering game machine after the detection by the wagering game machine of the first coded identifier. The second coded identifier is captured by an image capture device associated with the gaming system. The operations can further include transmitting, electronically, the second coded identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: LNW Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark B. Gagner, Benjamin R. Harry, Sean P. Kelly, Scott A. Massing, Justin A. Perkins, Victor T. Shi
  • Patent number: 11745095
    Abstract: An apparatus for entertaining an entertainee in a passenger vehicle includes an infotainment system having an automotive assistant that executes a spatially-cognizant entertainment application that interacts with the entertainee. In doing so, the automotive assistant receives information about the vehicle's environment from peripheral devices connected to the infotainment system. This provides the entertainment application with spatial intelligence that it then uses while interacting with the entertainee.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Cerence Operating Company
    Inventors: Mohammad Mehdi Moniri, Aditya Gulati
  • Patent number: 11749061
    Abstract: Methods and systems in which a plurality of plays is offered on a plurality of games, wherein the math model of a first game differs from the math model of a second game and wherein the player may specify at least one of the first and second games to receive additional plays and/or additional wagering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventor: Mark C. Nicely
  • Patent number: 11745089
    Abstract: A board game apparatus is described that includes a square playing board, and a first set and a second set of game coins. The square playing board includes a playing surface and two opposite playing sides, namely, attacking side (A) and defending side (D). The first set of game coins (f) are marked with indicia, such as I, II, III, IV, V, VII, and XI. The second set of game coins (s) consist of indicia Hash (#). The attacking side (A) is allotted with the first set of game coins (f) and the defending side (D) is allotted with the second set of game coins (s). The board game apparatus is designed to play games employing mathematical skills which provide amusement and educational stimulation to both adults and children.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventor: Pratima Patil
  • Patent number: 11741793
    Abstract: Administrating a package of shuffled playing cards to prevent fraudulent card exchanges. The administrating system is configured to calculate places and a number of packages of shuffled playing cards at places of the backyard, the places of playing tables, places of carriers and the disposition place using information obtained by the loading step and unloading step and the administrating system calculates by every ID codes bases 1) places of packages registered by the registering step for registering to a data base of administrating system and a number of packages place by place from information obtained from the loading step and the unloading step. The administrating system is configured to recognize whether there is a lost package by comparing the information of all ID codes registered in registering steps with the ID codes at places of packages obtained at the calculating step from the loading step and the unloading step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: ANGEL GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
  • Patent number: 11738265
    Abstract: In an example of an information processing system, while a user character in a hidden state is moving in a first direction, and if an input to a jump button and a direction operation input for moving the user character in a second direction are provided, and if a velocity condition and a first direction condition are satisfied, the user character is caused to immediately change direction to the second direction and is also caused to jump. The velocity condition is satisfied while the user character is moving at high speed. The first direction condition is satisfied when the difference between the first direction and the second direction is great.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Matsumoto, Shinya Nakagawa
  • Patent number: 11738266
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems are provided for generating an interactive non-player character (NPC) scene for a computer game environment of a video game. Changes are detected in relation to a script associated with the interactive NPC scene. For each NPC, a set of NPC data associated with the interactions said each NPC has within the script is generated corresponding to the changes. The generated set of NPC data is processed with an NPC rig associated with said each NPC to generate an NPC asset. A camera solver is applied to a region of the computer game environment associated with the script for determining locations of NPC assets and one or more cameras within said region in relation to said interactive NPC scene. Data representative of said each NPC asset and said determined NPC asset and camera locations for use by a game development engine for generating said interactive NPC scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: ELECTRONIC ARTS INC.
    Inventors: Eric Braun, Peter Sung, Clayton Vaught, Cullen Waters
  • Patent number: 11738272
    Abstract: A game management system provides a content generator configured for automated generation of custom game content based on a plurality of parametric values that model gameplay behavior of one or more players for whom the game content is to be customized. The customized configuration is generated in a predefined sequence of progressive configuration stages. In each stage, a respective configurable feature is assigned a custom value that is determined (e.g., in a biased or constrained randomized operation) based on a respectively linked parameter value from the data model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Zynga Inc.
    Inventors: Luke Dicken, Johnathan Pagnutti, Yang Wen
  • Patent number: 11738267
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a controller and a storage that stores: contents and a mission associated with a first content of the contents. The controller executes a game in which a parameter of a source content is increased when the source content having a source content ID is fused with a resource content having a resource content ID that is the same as the source content ID; upon receiving an instruction for the mission based on a player's operation, causes a screen to display a game discipline in which the first content can be acquired; when two or more first contents are acquired, determines: a second content of the acquired first contents as the source content; and third contents of the acquired first contents as the resource contents; and cause the screen to display a result in which the second content is automatically fused with the third contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Otomo
  • Patent number: 11731044
    Abstract: A system and controller are provided. In one example, the system includes a controller for playing a video game. The controller includes input buttons for controlling interaction during play of the video game. The controller includes an inertial sensor for detecting translational or rotational movement of the controller and a vibrational device. A voice input device is associated with the controller. A wireless communication circuit of the controller is provided for communicating data between the controller and a local computing device. The local computing device is connectable to a network. The data includes control responsive to presses of said input buttons or control received from said voice input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Marks, Hrishikesh Deshpande, Gary M. Zalewski