Patents by Inventor Daniel Marks

Daniel Marks 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: 20250139262
    Abstract: Machines and articles, processes for using the machines and articles, processes for making the machines and articles, and products produced by the processes of making, along with necessary intermediates, involving aspects of authorizing access to computing resources using non-fungible tokens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, Joshua Metnick, David Steinberg, Richard Adjei, Eric William Price, Robert Maciej Pieta, John Finley Detjen
  • Publication number: 20250112464
    Abstract: Machines and articles, processes for using the machines and articles, processes for making the machines and articles, and products produced by the processes of making, along with necessary intermediates, involving aspects of coordinated feedback between power producers and loads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, Christopher Wendell Linn, Joshua Metnick, Matthew Molitor, David Steinberg
  • Patent number: 12266241
    Abstract: A communal gaming system provides a communal game to players of electronic gaming devices. The system includes a plurality of EGMs, each EGM includes a trigger condition identifying when the player is awarded participation in the communal game. The system also includes a communal game display configured to display a communal game play area. The system (a) begins a game cycle for a game instance of the communal game; (b) receives, from a first device and in response to detecting the trigger condition, a communal participation trigger message; (c) awards a participation entry in the game cycle to the player; (d) transmits, to the first device, a participation award message indicating successfully entry of the player in the game cycle; (e) conducts the communal game, thereby generating an award outcome of the communal game for the player; and (f) awards the player based on the generated award outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Alfred Thomas, Larry Pacey, Joseph Masinter, II, John Daley, Michele Rousseau, Daniel Marks
  • Publication number: 20250104531
    Abstract: Rather than typical slot type games where specific matching combinations of symbols along paylines through a row-by-column grid or matrix indicate the outcome of the game, a slot type concatenation game concatenates value symbols along a payline to form a numerical outcome. Non-value symbols may be omitted and/or ignored. Further, the payline may be indicated by the presence of a trigger symbol, which may allow the payline to change between different plays of the slot type concatenation game. Further, the slot type concatenation game may be user-configurable. Users may be allowed to indicate the number of the symbol reels that may include value symbols that will be concatenated along a payline defined by the trigger symbol. Users may be allowed indicate the denomination set that is used to configure the symbol reels with value symbols, such as from one or more value symbol tables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, John Milliner, III, Hua Xu
  • Patent number: 12260710
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for providing multilevel autonomous tournaments for wagering game are provided. In some implementations, players may earn entry into such a tournament by meeting one or more criteria and then be associated with a tournament entry for that tournament. Each tournament entry may be associated with a set of tournament entries and, after a requisite number of tournament entries for a given tournament entry set has been associated with players, a selection of a tournament entry, and thus at least implicitly a player, may be made. The players selected in such a selection event may then be associated with a tournament entry in a next-highest tournament tier. Such selections may occur until a single player is selected from the highest-ranked tournament tier of the tournament.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, Hua Xu
  • Patent number: 12249222
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine that includes a display device, a memory device, and a processor. The processor configured to control the display device to display a matrix of symbol positions formed by a plurality of reels and display a first bingo card and a second bingo card wherein the first bingo card includes a first feature indicator and the second bingo card includes a second feature indicator, store in the memory device a first memory structure corresponding to the first bingo card and a second memory structure corresponding to the second bingo card, and in response to determining that a first prize symbol indicator of a first prize symbol displayed in the matrix of symbol positions corresponds to a combination of the first feature indicator and the second feature indicator, populate a position on each of the first bingo card and the second bingo card with the first prize symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, Hua Xu, Lokesh Jain, Ashish Bhandari
  • Publication number: 20250078619
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine includes a display device, a memory device, and a processor. The processor displays a matrix of symbol positions formed by a plurality of reels. The processor also displays a bingo card. The processor determines an outcome that includes a first plurality of symbols to display in the matrix of symbol positions and evaluates the outcome to determine a win amount. The processor populates the matrix of bingo positions with the first prize symbol to a bingo position of the matrix of bingo positions corresponding to a position of the prize symbol in the matrix of symbol positions. The processor evaluates the matrix of bingo positions to determine whether a predefined winning pattern is formed and, in response, determines an award value based at least in part on numerical values of prize symbols forming the predefined winning pattern in the matrix of bingo positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, Hua Xu
  • Patent number: 12236754
    Abstract: A gaming machine provides a base game from which a feature game is triggered when a determined number of configurable symbols are displayed in a base game outcome. When the feature game is triggered, the configurable symbols are held in place on the display and the player is provided with more spins during the feature game in which to collect additional configurable symbols. Any additional configurable symbols are retained on the display during subsequent spins until the feature game is completed. The configurable symbols include mystery symbols whose value is not determined until the mystery symbol is displayed. A first valuation game, such as a wheel spin, is used to determine the value for the mystery symbols. At the end of the feature game, the player is awarded a prize based on the values carried by the configurable symbols. A second valuation game, such as a wheel spin, is used to provide an enhanced award if the player collects a determined number of configurable symbols during the feature game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, Hua Xu
  • Publication number: 20250054371
    Abstract: An electronic gaming device is configured to display a matrix of symbol positions formed by a plurality of independent reels. The matrix of symbol positions define a play area, and the reels have different distributions of credit symbols. The device is further configured to identify first predefined pattern(s) defined in the play area, determine a first outcome that includes a first plurality of symbols to display in the play area, determine whether a first subset of symbols of the first plurality of symbols correspond to the first predefined pattern(s), and in response to determining that the first subset of symbols correspond, hold at least the first subset of symbols in place within the play area. The device is further configured to determine a second outcome that includes a second plurality of symbols to display in the play area within the matrix that do not correspond to the first predefined pattern(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, Hua Xu
  • Publication number: 20250046145
    Abstract: A graphical user interface for providing skill-based tests that require players of a game of chance to engage in one or more deliberate actions in order to collect an award provided in response to an outcome in a game of chance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Pratik Jhanb, Daniel Marks, Hua Xu
  • Patent number: 12205440
    Abstract: Rather than typical slot type games where specific matching combinations of symbols along paylines through a row-by-column grid or matrix indicate the outcome of the game, a slot type concatenation game concatenates value symbols along a payline to form a numerical outcome. Non-value symbols may be omitted and/or ignored. Further, the payline may be indicated by the presence of a trigger symbol, which may allow the payline to change between different plays of the slot type concatenation game. Further, the slot type concatenation game may be user-configurable. Users may be allowed to indicate the number of the symbol reels that may include value symbols that will be concatenated along a payline defined by the trigger symbol. Users may be allowed indicate the denomination set that is used to configure the symbol reels with value symbols, such as from one or more value symbol tables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, John Milliner, III, Hua Xu
  • Patent number: 12183157
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine includes a display device, a memory device, and a processor. The processor displays a matrix of symbol positions formed by a plurality of reels. The processor also displays a bingo card. The processor determines an outcome that includes a first plurality of symbols to display in the matrix of symbol positions and evaluates the outcome to determine a win amount. The processor populates the matrix of bingo positions with the first prize symbol to a bingo position of the matrix of bingo positions corresponding to a position of the prize symbol in the matrix of symbol positions. The processor evaluates the matrix of bingo positions to determine whether a predefined winning pattern is formed and, in response, determines an award value based at least in part on numerical values of prize symbols forming the predefined winning pattern in the matrix of bingo positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, Hua Xu
  • Publication number: 20240362484
    Abstract: A network learning machine and methods including worker computers that receive instruction communications from assignment computers and an analysis computer that produces training data and creates a network machine learning model that includes at least one parameter and a criterion for optimality, and adjusts the at least one parameter of the machine learning model toward the criterion to optimality based on the training data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventor: Daniel Marks
  • Publication number: 20240312311
    Abstract: An electronic gaming device including a memory and a processor is described. The processor is configured to provide an electronic game wherein return-to-player (RTP) in the electronic game is controlled based upon input amounts for the electronic game and, for at least one play of the electronic game where a secondary output amount is provided, store the secondary output amount in the memory as being associated with at least one input amount used for the at least one play. The processor is also configured to receive at least part of the secondary output amount to initiate a bonus play, determine an RTP for the bonus play based at least in part upon the at least one input amount used for the at least one play where the secondary output amount was provided, and cause the bonus play to be provided with the RTP for the bonus play.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Erick Ching, Hanna Sanborn, Jeffrey Uss, Chad La Guardia, Rogelio Decasa, JR., Jennifer Mizzi, Peter Wasielewski, Daniel Marks, Hua Xu, Vinay Jain, Jaya Kanojia, Apoorv Agarwal
  • Publication number: 20240296718
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine enables implementation of a base game, from which a bonus game may be triggered. Outcomes achieved during a play of the bonus game may be retained for use during subsequent triggering of the bonus game. For example, during play of the bonus game a player may achieve one or more game conditions, such as held special symbols, sticky WILD symbols, or award multipliers. These game conditions may be retained at the end of the bonus game and used if the player subsequently triggers another bonus game while playing the base game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventor: Daniel Marks
  • Patent number: D1041494
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, Hua Xu, Bradford Blanar, Stephen Ramsey
  • Patent number: D1046974
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventor: Daniel Marks
  • Patent number: D1061715
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Miller, Sr., Joseph Kaminkow, Daniel Marks, Paul Barker, Frank Rodriguez, Timothy Barbour, Rajendrasinh Jadeja
  • Patent number: D1068938
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventor: Daniel Marks
  • Patent number: D1072864
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, Hua Xu, Claire Oliphant