Patents by Inventor Dwayne Nelson

Dwayne Nelson 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: 20250148873
    Abstract: Systems and methods that determine a sporting event wager based on random events occurring during one or more plays of one or more games independent of any sporting events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventor: Dwayne Nelson
  • Publication number: 20250148865
    Abstract: Systems and methods that determine a parlay sporting event wager based on random events occurring during one or more plays of one or more games independent of any sporting events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventor: Dwayne Nelson
  • Publication number: 20250140064
    Abstract: Systems and methods that enable one or more drawing entries in association with a redemption of a balance of a credit meter that is less than a minimum amount required to undertake wagering activity at a gaming device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Tanner Badalato, Kevin Remus
  • Publication number: 20250140058
    Abstract: Systems and methods that enable one or more award opportunities in association with a redemption of a balance of a credit meter that is less than a minimum amount required to undertake wagering activity at a gaming device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Tanner Badalato, Kevin Remus
  • Publication number: 20250140059
    Abstract: Systems and methods that enable one or more sporting event wagering opportunities in association with a redemption of a balance of a credit meter that is less than a minimum amount required to undertake wagering activity at a gaming device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Tanner Badalato, Kevin Remus
  • Publication number: 20250131794
    Abstract: Systems and methods that enable incentives for sporting event wagering activity occurring at an establishment independent of any casino location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250131797
    Abstract: A method including receiving, by a player and via a user interface, an outcome of a primary wager game played by the player, providing, to the player, an offer to make a secondary wager game that comprises an alteration output that alters the outcome of the primary wager game. The secondary wager game includes randomly selecting one of multiple values. Operations include receiving, from the player, a first input that causes the secondary wager game to be performed and determining the alteration output that is associated with the secondary wager game. Operations include receiving, from the player, a second input that causes a second secondary wager to be performed a second time and altering, based on the alteration output corresponding to the first input and the second input, the output of the primary wager game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventor: Dwayne NELSON
  • Publication number: 20250131467
    Abstract: Systems and methods that enable retail benefits for sporting event wagering activity occurring at a retail establishment independent of any casino location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250131796
    Abstract: Systems, devices and methods are provided. A system includes a communication interface, a processor circuit and a memory coupled to the embodiments. The memory includes machine readable instructions that, when executed by the processor circuit, cause the processor circuit to receive, via a communication interface, progressive prize data corresponding to multiple progressive wagering games and from multiple electronic gaming machines. The processor circuit may be further caused to generate multiple updated progressive wagering game composite values that each correspond to one of the progressive wagering games. The processor circuit may be further caused to transmit data corresponding to the updated progressive wagering game composite values to the display device that is configured to display each of the updated progressive wagering game composite values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne NELSON, Kevin HIGGINS
  • Patent number: 12283150
    Abstract: A gaming device includes a frame, a display, and an electronic-ink film that is attached to various exterior surfaces of the frame. As a trigger event occurs, the appearance state of the electronic-ink film is dynamically changed to provide a specific color or animation output. This output changes an appearance of the exterior surfaces of the frame and the gaming device in general. The trigger events correspond to gameplay events, player activity, and a state of the gaming device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Dwayne Nelson
  • Publication number: 20250111749
    Abstract: Systems and methods that enable a player to place a wager on a historical horse race, wherein if the wager is determined to be a winning wager, a win amount for the winning wager is randomly selected from a pool of win amounts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Dwayne Nelson
  • Publication number: 20250111732
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to electronic playing cards, each of the playing cards comprising opposing first and second planar playing card surfaces such that, when being viewed by the corresponding player, the first planar playing card surface faces the other players and the second planar playing card surface faces the corresponding player. The first and/or second planar playing card surface can comprise a digital display. A gaming system can assign an electronic playing card to each player in a card game and determine and provide to each of the electronic playing cards an assigned playing card parameter (e.g., card suit and rank) for depiction by a digital display of the respective playing card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Patrick Danielson, Dwayne Nelson, Samantha Ascheri-Phillips, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250104522
    Abstract: Systems and methods that offer zero, one or more bonus events in association with a procurement and/or a redemption of a ticket voucher associated with an amount of funds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Kevin Higgins, Robert Silva
  • Publication number: 20250104523
    Abstract: Systems and methods that offer zero, one or more bonus events in association with a procurement and/or a redemption of a ticket voucher associated with an amount of funds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Kevin Higgins, Robert Silva
  • Publication number: 20250104509
    Abstract: Systems and methods that offer zero, one or more bonus events associated with one type of funds based on a redemption of a ticket voucher associated with another type of funds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Kevin Higgins, Robert Silva
  • Patent number: 12249212
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for selectively providing live sporting event video at sports gaming devices may include decrypting a first encrypted video signal is decrypted into a first decrypted video signal that includes a first encoded video stream of a first live sporting event. The first encoded video stream may be decoded into a first decoded video stream that includes a first video of the first live sporting event, which may be displayed by a display device along with first wager information to facilitate a user placing a wager on the first live sporting event. In response to receiving an instruction to display a second video of a second live sporting event, a second encrypted video signal may be decrypted into a second decrypted video signal that includes a second encoded video stream of the second live sporting event. The second encoded video stream may be decoded into a second decoded video stream that includes the second video of the second live sporting event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Steve Lemay, John Hurley, Thang Doan, Chun Jia
  • Publication number: 20250061782
    Abstract: Gaming systems and methods that provide sheet music employed for symbol generation and display and player inputs in gaming environments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Jeffery McIntosh
  • Publication number: 20250061765
    Abstract: Gaming systems and methods that provide sheet music employed for symbol generation and display in partially random gaming environments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Jeffery McIntosh
  • Publication number: 20250061764
    Abstract: Gaming systems and methods that provide sheet music employed for symbol generation and display in gaming environments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Jeffery McIntosh
  • Publication number: 20250061763
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a gaming table system and method that identifies a shuffle event based on one or more of a position of a next eligible virtual card in a plurality of virtual playing cards, a position in the plurality of virtual cards of a shuffle card relative to the position of the next eligible virtual card, a counter value indicating a number of ineligible virtual cards, and a counter value indicating a number of remaining eligible virtual cards and in response to identifying a shuffle event, shuffles the plurality of virtual playing cards to form a shuffled plurality of virtual playing cards for assignment to a plurality of physical playing cards, each physical playing card comprising an on-board power source, microprocessor, memory, and digital display to receive and render a value of a corresponding assigned virtual playing card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Dwayne Nelson