Patents by Inventor Daniel Landry

Daniel Landry has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20260134752
    Abstract: Embodiments herein are directed to an electronic gaming machine (EGM), a system and a method. Operations of a method may include determining a blockchain type of mining operations to be performed by multiple EGMs, requesting AI input data from the EGM's that includes prediction data corresponding to operations of the EGMs and that corresponds to the blockchain type. Operations include performing monitoring and scheduling operations corresponding to mining cryptocurrency using the EGMs and based on the blockchain type. Operations include receiving data corresponding to a quantity of users in a casino venue, comparing the quantity of users in the casino venue to a user crowd threshold, in response to the quantity of users being greater that the user crowd threshold, disable blockchain mining operations until the quantity of users is less than the user crowd threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2024
    Publication date: May 14, 2026
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Aaron COREY, Michael RUSS, Fayez IDRIS, Daniel LANDRY
  • Publication number: 20260134754
    Abstract: Embodiments herein are directed to an electronic gaming machine (EGM), a system and a method. Operations include determining a blockchain type of mining operations to be performed by a plurality of EGMs and requesting AI input data from multiple EGMs that comprise prediction data corresponding to operations of the plurality of EGMs and that corresponds to the blockchain type. Operations may further include performing monitoring and scheduling operations corresponding to mining cryptocurrency using the multiple EGMs and based on the blockchain type. Operations include receiving, from ones of the EGMs in a casino, blockchain cryptocurrency data that is mined by ones of the EGMs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2024
    Publication date: May 14, 2026
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Aaron COREY, Michael RUSS, Fayez IDRIS, Daniel LANDRY
  • Publication number: 20260099980
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to artificially intelligent player avatars in a virtual casino. Generally speaking, various types of information related to a player can be collected and aggregated across a number of different real world and virtual reality sources. This aggregated data can be used to generate a player model. Similarly, information can be collected about one or more electronic games and this information can be used to generate a game model for each game. An avatar can then be generated and presented in a virtual reality gaming venue, e.g., a virtual casino. This avatar can then interact with the play based on the player model and the game model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2025
    Publication date: April 9, 2026
    Inventors: David Small, Jackie Alvarez, Karen Van Niekerk, Gaurav Jariwala, Daniel Landry, Bethany Plimmer, Todd Grimm
  • Publication number: 20260051222
    Abstract: A system includes a processor circuit and a memory coupled to the processor circuit, the memory including machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor circuit, cause the processor circuit to perform operations. The processor circuit is caused to provide a content creator interface to receive creative content inputs from a content creator to use in an electronic gaming machine (EGM) and to generate creative gaming content for use in the EGM and based on the creative content inputs. The processor circuit is further caused to provide a creator output that comprises the creative gaming content and that is delivered to a player via the EGM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2024
    Publication date: February 19, 2026
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Daniel LANDRY, Todd GRIMM, Michael RUSS
  • Publication number: 20260004628
    Abstract: A system includes a processor circuit and a memory coupled to the processor circuit, the memory including machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor circuit, cause the processor circuit to perform operations. Such operations include providing, by the processor circuit, a virtual environment in a metaverse. The virtual environment includes a virtual electronic gaming machine (EGM), that receives, via the processor circuit and from a gaming device that is in a physical world, an identification of a first instance of the virtual environment that includes fantasy gameplay content that is not available in the physical world. Operations include generating, via the processor circuit, the first instance of the virtual environment that includes the fantasy gameplay content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2024
    Publication date: January 1, 2026
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Daniel LANDRY, Michael RUSS, Jackie ALVAREZ, Gaurav JARIWALA, David FROY, Todd GRIMM, Aaron COREY, Bethany PLIMMER, David SMALL, Karen VAN NIEKERK
  • Publication number: 20260004261
    Abstract: A system displays a marketplace interface at a display device comprising a plurality of cryptographic tokens, each cryptographic token comprising an acquisition price and a seller identifier associated with a seller of the cryptographic token, the acquisition price including a sale price. A token selection of a first cryptographic token of the plurality of cryptographic tokens is received from a purchaser. The acquisition price associated with the first cryptographic token is received from the purchaser, the first cryptographic token is provided to the purchaser, and the sale price is provided to the seller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2024
    Publication date: January 1, 2026
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Bethany PLIMMER, Aaron COREY, Jackie ALVAREZ, Fayez IDRIS, David FROY, David SMALL, Karen VAN NIEKERK, Gaurav JARIWALA, Todd GRIMM, Daniel LANDRY
  • Patent number: 12505600
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to artificially intelligent player avatars in a virtual casino. Generally speaking, various types of information related to a player can be collected and aggregated across a number of different real world and virtual reality sources. This aggregated data can be used to generate a player model. Similarly, information can be collected about one or more electronic games and this information can be used to generate a game model for each game. An avatar can then be generated and presented in a virtual reality gaming venue, e.g., a virtual casino. This avatar can then interact with the play based on the player model and the game model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: David Small, Jackie Alvarez, Karen Van Niekerk, Gaurav Jariwala, Daniel Landry, Bethany Plimmer, Todd Grimm
  • Publication number: 20250371939
    Abstract: A method includes determining, by a processor circuit, a cryptographic token associated with a player at a gaming device. The method further includes modifying, by the processor circuit, a paytable for a wagering game at the gaming device from a first paytable to a second paytable associated with the cryptographic token. The method further includes receiving, by the processor circuit, a wager for the wagering game from the player at the gaming device. The method further includes determining, by the processor circuit, whether an outcome for the wagering game is a winning outcome. The method further includes, in response to a determination that the outcome for the wagering game is a winning outcome, determining, by the processor circuit, a game award for the wagering game based on the wager and the second paytable. The method further includes awarding, by the processor circuit, the game award to the player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2024
    Publication date: December 4, 2025
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Karen VAN NIEKERK, Todd GRIMM, Bethany PLIMMER, Aaron COREY, Daniel LANDRY, Michael RUSS, Gaurav JARIWALA
  • Publication number: 20250371940
    Abstract: A physical cryptographic token may include a substrate and a passive identifier device for passively providing a token identifier associated with the cryptographic token to a token authentication device. A cryptographic token management device may include a token authentication device for receiving token identifier from a passive identifier device of a physical cryptographic token, a token management interface for managing cryptographic tokens associated with token identifiers of physical cryptographic tokens, and a token dispenser device for dispensing a physical cryptographic token associated with a token identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2024
    Publication date: December 4, 2025
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Jackie ALVAREZ, David SMALL, Todd GRIMM, Daniel LANDRY, Bethany PLIMMER, Gaurav JARIWALA, David FROY, Karen VAN NIEKERK, Aaron COREY, Anthony BAERLOCHER
  • Publication number: 20250363852
    Abstract: A gaming device includes a base and a transparent display disposed on the base including an emissive layer including an array of pixels, each including an emissive pixel element and a transparent portion, and a conductive layer operatively coupled to the emissive layer to selectively operate the emissive pixel elements. The gaming device further includes a processor circuit a memory storing machine-readable instructions that cause the processor circuit to selectively operate the transparent display. The transparent portion of each pixel is transparent to visible light in an inactive state such that an environment behind the transparent display is visible through the transparent portion to a user in front of the transparent display. Each pixel of the array of pixels emits light in an active state sufficient to obscure visibility of the environment behind the transparent display through the transparent portion to the user in front of the transparent display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2025
    Publication date: November 27, 2025
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: David SMALL, Michael RUSS, Aaron COREY, Julia-Ines LERCHBAUMER, Daniel LANDRY
  • Patent number: 12412446
    Abstract: A gaming device includes a housing defining an interior volume and a transparent display that includes an emissive layer including an array of pixels, each including an emissive pixel element and a transparent portion, and a conductive layer operatively to selectively operate the emissive pixel elements. The gaming device further include a processor circuit and a memory storing machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor circuit, cause the processor circuit to selectively operate the transparent display. The transparent portion of each pixel is transparent to visible light in an inactive state such the interior volume of the housing is visible through the transparent portion to a user outside the housing. Each emissive pixel of the array of emissive pixels emits light in an active state sufficient to obscure visibility of the interior volume of the housing through the transparent portion of the pixel to the user outside the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: David Small, Michael Russ, Aaron Corey, Julia-Ines Lerchbaumer, Daniel Landry, Donovan Francis
  • Publication number: 20250278882
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to artificially intelligent player avatars in a virtual casino. Generally speaking, various types of information related to a player can be collected and aggregated across a number of different real world and virtual reality sources. This aggregated data can be used to generate a player model. Similarly, information can be collected about one or more electronic games and this information can be used to generate a game model for each game. An avatar can then be generated and presented in a virtual reality gaming venue, e.g., a virtual casino. This avatar can then interact with the play based on the player model and the game model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2024
    Publication date: September 4, 2025
    Inventors: David Small, Jackie Alvarez, Karen Van Niekerk, Gaurav Jariwala, Daniel Landry, Bethany Plimmer, Todd Grimm
  • Patent number: 12406546
    Abstract: A gaming device includes a base and a transparent display disposed on the base including an emissive layer including an array of pixels, each including an emissive pixel element and a transparent portion, and a conductive layer operatively coupled to the emissive layer to selectively operate the emissive pixel elements. The gaming device further includes a processor circuit a memory storing machine-readable instructions that cause the processor circuit to selectively operate the transparent display. The transparent portion of each pixel is transparent to visible light in an inactive state such that an environment behind the transparent display is visible through the transparent portion to a user in front of the transparent display. Each pixel of the array of pixels emits light in an active state sufficient to obscure visibility of the environment behind the transparent display through the transparent portion to the user in front of the transparent display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: David Small, Michael Russ, Aaron Corey, Julia-Ines Lerchbaumer, Daniel Landry
  • Patent number: 12361758
    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: October 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: David Small, David Froy, Jr., Michael Russ, Stefan Keilwert, Sven Aurich, Fayez Idris, Daniel Landry
  • Publication number: 20250174078
    Abstract: A first wager from a first player for a first wagering game at physical table game in a casino environment is determined, the physical table game including a physical game object. A second wager is determined from a second player for a second wagering game different from the first wagering game via a computing device associated with the second player. A sensor device at the physical table game detects a parameter value associated with physical game object. A first game result for the first wagering game is determined, and based on the detected parameter value, a second game result for the second wagering game is determined. In response to the second game result being a winning game result, a game award is provided to the second player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Aaron COREY, Jackie ALVAREZ, Gaurav JARIWALA, Daniel LANDRY, Anthony BAERLOCHER, David FROY, Carman MISENER, Michael RUSS
  • Publication number: 20250104503
    Abstract: A processor circuit provides a real-time environmental model of a shared virtual environment (SVE) comprising a plurality of virtual persons and a plurality of virtual gaming devices. The processor circuit transmits display data corresponding to the SVE to a first player device worn by a first player, the display data comprising user display data that causes a display device in the first player device to render a portion of the SVE based on a virtual orientation of the first player device and a virtual location of the first player in the SVE. The processor circuit determines a virtual environment condition in the SVE and, based on the virtual environment condition, operates a a biometric feedback device to provide biometric feedback to the first player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: David FROY, David SMALL, Karen VAN NIEKERK, Gaurav JARIWALA, Todd GRIMM, Daniel LANDRY, Jackie ALVAREZ, Bethany PLIMMER
  • Publication number: 20250104512
    Abstract: A system includes 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 processor circuit to provide, by the processor circuit, a virtual environment in a metaverse. The virtual environment includes a virtual electronic gaming machine (EGM). The processor circuit is further caused to receive, via the processing circuit and from a gaming device that is in a physical world and that corresponds to a user, an identification of a modification to the virtual environment that is not possible in the physical world. The processor circuit further caused to provide, responsive to receiving the identification of the modification and via the processing circuit, the modification to the virtual environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Karen VAN NIEKERK, Todd GRIMM, David FROY, Aaron COREY, Daniel LANDRY, Bethany PLIMMER, David SMALL, Carman MISENER
  • Publication number: 20250078622
    Abstract: A cryptographic token associated with a player including a cryptographic hash associated with a blockchain, a player identifier indicative of a player associated with the cryptographic token, and a progress identifier indicative of a present progress value for a wagering game is determined, and a first progress value associated with a first play session of a first wagering game by a player is determined. Based on the first progress value, the progress identifier of the cryptographic token is modified to add the first progress value to the present progress value. Based on the present progress value, a first game benefit to the player is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Karen VAN NIEKERK, Todd GRIMM, Anthony BAERLOCHER, David SMALL, Bethany PLIMMER, Aaron COREY, Daniel LANDRY
  • Publication number: 20250078615
    Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) including a plurality of wagering game assets, such as game modules, math models, cosmetic game features, and other assets is provided to a user. Based on first user input received from the user via a GUI, a first virtual wagering game is generated using selected assets. The input may include selection from a plurality of The first virtual wagering game is provided to a plurality of players in a virtual gaming environment. A first revenue amount is received from wagers by the players in the first virtual wagering game. A first portion of the first revenue amount is awarded to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Michael RUSS, Daniel LANDRY, David FROY, Jackie ALVAREZ, Todd GRIMM, David SMALL, Karen VAN NIEKERK, Anthony BAERLOCHER, Aaron COREY
  • Publication number: 20250078623
    Abstract: A primary wagering game is provided at a gaming device to a first player and a cryptographic token associated with the first player is determined. The cryptographic token includes a player identifier indicative of the player associated with the cryptographic token and a benefit identifier associated with a game benefit being provided to the first player associated with the cryptographic token. Based on the cryptographic token, a secondary game is provided at the gaming device, wherein play of the secondary game does not affect play of the primary wagering game, and wherein play of the secondary game appears to the first player to modify play of the primary wagering game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Bethany PLIMMER, Aaron COREY, David SMALL, Fayez IDRIS, David FROY, Daniel LANDRY, Karen VAN NIEKERK, Todd GRIMM