Patents Examined by Steven J. Hylinski
  • Patent number: 12374190
    Abstract: Systems and methods which provide a player zero, one or more benefits based on zero, one or more skill-based inputs the player makes during one or more plays of one or more games of skill, wherein the benefits obtained are independent of any awards determined during such plays of such games of skill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Eric Lancaster, Erik Petersen, Andrew Fisher, Larry Hollibaugh
  • Patent number: 12374194
    Abstract: A wagering game operates according to a set of game rules including game flow rules that define a sequence of game events that are presented to a player in a course of operation of the wagering game, a math engine that governs probabilities of pseudorandom events that can occur in the course of operation of the wagering game, and a pay table that defines winning events that can occur in the course of operation of the wagering game and corresponding payouts that are made to the player upon occurrence of the wining events. The method determines a player game play preference of the player associated with playing the wagering game on the EGM, and adjusts the game flow rules in response to the determined player game play preference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Fayez Idris
  • Patent number: 12357909
    Abstract: A remote, or cloud, gaming system includes a gaining server coupled to a client device and to a game controller via a network. The gaming server is configured to execute a video game application. Responsive to detecting instantiation of a player interactive window in a video stream generated in association with the video game application, the server is further configured to preventing one or more player inputs from the game controller that are received in a specified filter window following instantiation of the player interactive window from being interpreted by the video game application as player input that is reactive to the player interactive window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventor: Daniel Cary
  • Patent number: 12357913
    Abstract: A method for controlling a computer and the like that cause players to effectively use possessed game contents in a game and increase the attractiveness of the game. The computer includes a storage unit that stores one or more game contents possessed by a player and a game content group, the one or more game contents each having a parameter value, the game content group being composed by using at least one of the one or more game contents, and makes a game proceed based on an instruction from a player. The method includes the steps of modifying the parameter value of a common game content in the game content group possessed by the player and being the same type as the one or more game contents other than the game content group, and processing an event by using the game content group whose parameter value is modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: GREE HOLDINGS, Inc.
    Inventor: Takashi Shiratori
  • 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: 12318686
    Abstract: An improved controller for a game console that is intended to be held by a user in both hands in the same manner as a conventional controller, which has controls on the front operable by the thumbs, and has two additional controls located on the back in positions to be operated by the middle finger of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Ironburg Inventions Limited
    Inventors: Simon Burgess, Duncan Ironmonger
  • Patent number: 12318697
    Abstract: An example of an information processing apparatus acquires action data based on an output of a sensor according to a fitness action performed by a player, and executes a game event. In the game event, the information processing apparatus designates at least one type of fitness event from among a plurality of types of fitness events. Each fitness event causes the player to perform a fitness action. During the game event, the information processing apparatus executes a fitness event that causes the player to perform a fitness action corresponding to the designated fitness event until an ending condition is satisfied. The information processing apparatus determines whether or not the achievement condition has been satisfied, based on the action data acquired during the fitness event. The information processing apparatus repeats designation and execution of the fitness event until it is determined that the achievement condition has been satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Suzuki, Masaki Wada
  • Patent number: 12315330
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for a chip tracking system. For example, an apparatus comprises a chip tray and a tracking controller. The chip tray has a plurality of light sensors positioned inside a column. In some instances, the tracking controller is configured to perform operations that cause the apparatus to detect a level of ambient light at each of the plurality of light sensors and determine, in response to detection of the level of ambient light at each of the plurality of light sensors, a number of gaming chips placed inside the column. The tracking controller is further configured to perform operations that cause the apparatus to compute, in response to determination of the number of gaming chips, a chip-column value. In some instances, the tracking controller is further configured to automatically indicate the chip-column value via one or more electronic devices communicatively coupled to the chip tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: LNW Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Suhas Rangaswamy, Prateek Kumar Baishkhiyar, Yogendrasinh Rajput
  • Patent number: 12300034
    Abstract: A method of physical activity measurement and analysis, the method comprising computer-executed steps of: receiving at least one value extracted from measurements of a physical activity of a first user, and detecting a deviation of the physical activity of the first user from at least one previous physical activity using the received at least one value and at least one reference value calculated over at least one value extracted from measurements of the at least one previous physical activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: 6DEGREES LTD.
    Inventors: Aryeh Haim Katz, Miri Berger Katz
  • Patent number: 12285684
    Abstract: In a communication system including a server and a plurality of communication terminals capable of communication with the server, based on a variety of parameters indicating the status of a space formed within a game playable by the user of each communication terminal over the communication system, the server transmits advisory information, which suggests the next action for the space, to the communication terminal. The communication terminal displays a screen including the received advisory information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: GREE, INC.
    Inventor: Takayuki Sano
  • Patent number: 12285686
    Abstract: A multidimensional sports system for playing a multidimensional sports game having a physical component played by physical players manipulating a movable game object within a physical playing area, and a virtual component played by virtual game users within a virtual game space inside a virtual competitive game. The multidimensional sports system comprises an interactive game portal with a physical portal boundary and a sensor, a game host device for implementing the virtual competitive game, and a game object projector. A physical to virtual game transition occurs upon the sensor detecting the movable game object crossing the physical portal boundary, suspending the physical component and initiating the virtual component. The virtual component is played until a virtual game object crosses a virtual portal boundary, causing a virtual to physical transition suspending the virtual component and causing the game object projector to launch the movable game object onto the physical playing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Inventor: Carrick J. Pierce
  • Patent number: 12280309
    Abstract: The immersive, interactive system according to the present disclosure employs interconnected hardware, firmware, software, and mixed technology comprising projection systems, smart entertainment technologies, tracking systems, sound, light, visual displays, and other physical and/or special effect displays to create an entertainment experience that brings people together to enjoy a common story, theme, music, or game. In one embodiment, the system takes the form of a magical campfire that interacts with members of the audience to present an interactive and customized visual and audio display and story. The system may connect and interact with other technological platforms and smart devices to supplement the processing and experience, and may be updated to maintain relevant and timely content, and add additional features. The system may exist in a large scale environment, such as a theatre, theme park, or museum, or may be condensed to a smaller-scale version for home use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Inventor: Denise Chapman Weston
  • Patent number: 12257500
    Abstract: A computing device may determine one or more characteristics of a gaming application executing at one or more processors of the computing device. The computing device may determine a gameplay state of the gaming application executing at the one or more processors based at least in part on the one or more characteristics. The computing device may adjust, based at least in part on the state of the gaming application, a target frame rate of image data outputted by the gaming application for display at a display device. The computing device may output, based at least in part on the adjusted target frame rate, the image data for display at the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Katie Leah Roberts-Hoffman, Scott James Carbon-Ogden
  • Patent number: 12257509
    Abstract: A method comprising: providing a three dimensional computer generated environment for a multi-player combat video game; providing a controllable character for each player of the multi-player combat video game to control in the three dimensional computer generated environment; selecting one of a plurality of stored pieces of music, wherein each stored piece of music has pre-determined timing data representative of a time of one or more changes in at least one characteristic of the stored piece of music; providing said selected piece of music to each player of the multi-player game as the players play the multi-player combat video game; modifying one or more aspects of the multi-player combat video game in response to the one or more changes in at least one characteristic of the provided piece of music, wherein the one or more aspects of the multi-player combat video game comprises at least one of: a) a scoring system; b) one or more properties or elements of the virtual environment thereby to change an accessi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Build a Rocket Boy Games Ltd.
    Inventor: Leslie Peter Benzies
  • Patent number: 12251624
    Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a processor that performs operations including detecting a first depression range of a button that includes an electro-mechanical sensor for detecting the first depression range, comparing the first depression range to a first actuation threshold, and asserting a first actuation state when the first depression range is at or exceeds the first actuation threshold. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: STEELSERIES ApS
    Inventor: Tino Soelberg
  • Patent number: 12254748
    Abstract: A gaming machine having three displays of (1) five mechanical reels, (2) five video reels and (3) a single multi-slice wheel. Gaming interaction between the three displays provides a base game on the mechanical reels from which (1) a first spinning-reel-type bonus game is triggered and (2) a second wheel-type bonus game is triggered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Eric Satterlie, Christmas Uberuaga
  • Patent number: 12220633
    Abstract: A rendering method includes: receiving a first operation instruction from a user; rendering, according to the first operation instruction, a first image of an application corresponding to the first operation instruction; predicting a second operation instruction according to the first operation instruction; rendering, according to the second operation instruction, a second image of the application corresponding to the second operation instruction; if no operation instruction is received from the terminal device user within preset duration during running of an app after the first operation instruction is received, predicting a user operation according to the received operation instruction, where the operation instruction is an instruction that is generated through triggering by the user operation and that may trigger image switching of the app; rendering an app image based on a predicted user operation; and sending a rendered app image to the terminal device user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiwen Zhang, Xiaopeng Zhou
  • Patent number: 12220629
    Abstract: An operation device includes an operation unit, a power generation element that generates power according to an operation of the operation unit, a battery that supplies power, and a communication unit that transmits an operation signal corresponding to the operation unit that has been operated. The communication unit transmits the operation signal by use of power supplied from the battery, in a case where a residual quantity of the battery is a predetermined residual quantity or larger. The communication unit transmits the operation signal by use of power generated by the power generation element, in a case where the residual quantity of the battery is smaller than the predetermined residual quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Kentarou Suzuki, Tsubasa Umeki, Tomohiro Oto, Shinpei Kameoka, Kazuteru Fukayama, Ryu Sannomiya, Yusuke Onishi
  • Patent number: 12208171
    Abstract: Electronic gaming devices and other gaming equipment include, or are retrofitted with, ultraviolet (“UV”) light sources to disinfect surfaces as well as hardware features and software features to manage UV disinfection cycles and report results of UV disinfection cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Roberto Coppola, Rajendrasinh Jadeja, Frank Rodriguez, Nimish Purohit, Sandra Apple, Bruce Urban, Alfred Thomas, Scott Hendrickson, Stephen Shaffer, Jr., Xiaoqiang Gong, Joseph Kaminkow, Christopher Cleveland, Ariel Turgel, Daniel Harden, Akifusa Nakazawa, Benjamin Martin
  • Patent number: 12186905
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a slip simulation apparatus, a controlled robot, a game handle, a virtual game console, and a control system. The slip simulation apparatus includes a base; at least one motor arranged on the base; a slip simulation controller, configured to: receive slip data, and generate a rotating speed control signal used for controlling the at least one motor; and at least one synchronous wheel, at least one synchronous belt, and at least one limit apparatus associated with the motor, the synchronous wheel being sleeved on the synchronous belt and the limit apparatus, the motor being drivingly connected to the at least one synchronous wheel to drive, according to the rotating speed control signal, the at least one synchronous wheel and the at least one synchronous belt to rotate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiong Li, Yu Zheng, Ruoxuan Jiang, Xinyang Jiang, Zhengyou Zhang