Patents by Inventor Dwayne R. Nelson

Dwayne R. 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).

  • Patent number: 12230108
    Abstract: Gaming systems and methods which utilize the results of a sporting event to determine an outcome of a bingo game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Jeffrey Knox
  • Publication number: 20250054351
    Abstract: Systems and methods that employ a streaming device operable with a live streaming platform that offers certain security enhancements independent of any content being streamed to a client device by the live streaming platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250054360
    Abstract: Systems and methods that employ a streaming device operable with a live streaming platform that offers certain responsible gaming enhancements independent of any content being streamed to a client device by the live streaming platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250054357
    Abstract: Systems and methods that employ a streaming device operable with a live streaming platform to identify, independent of any content being streamed to a client device by the live streaming platform, a defective operation of an electronic gaming machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250054359
    Abstract: Systems and methods that employ a streaming device operable with a live streaming platform that offers certain gaming regulatory enhancements independent of any content being streamed to a client device by the live streaming platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250054352
    Abstract: Systems and methods that employ a streaming device operable with a live streaming platform that offers certain casino anti-money laundering enhancements independent of any content being streamed to a client device by the live streaming platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250046151
    Abstract: Systems and methods that employ a streaming device operable with a live streaming platform that offers, independent of any content being streamed to a client device by the live streaming platform, certain outcome verifications utilizing recreated outcomes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250046152
    Abstract: Systems and methods that employ a streaming device operable with a live streaming platform that offers, independent of any content being streamed to a client device by the live streaming platform, certain outcome verifications utilizing stored outcomes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 12211351
    Abstract: Systems and methods which utilize zero, one or more random determinations in association with a determination of an award of a placed sporting event wager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Vincent S. Lai
  • Patent number: 12183158
    Abstract: A gaming system and method that provides one or more players with one or more pre-resumption opportunities prior to resuming the play of the skill-based game. The gaming system enables one or more players to affirmatively acknowledge, following a game play interruption, that they are ready to resume play of the skill-based game. Such an opportunity to indicate a readiness to resume the play of the skill-based game provides that the play of the skill-based game resumes when the player is ready and minimizes the affect of any game play interruption on the player's outcome of the skill-based game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Johnny L. Palchetti, Dwayne R. Nelson, Cameron Filipour, Michael G. Spendlove
  • Publication number: 20240428659
    Abstract: Gaming systems and methods which utilize the results of a sporting event to modify one or more parameters of a play of a game, such as a wagering game of chance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Jeffrey Knox
  • Publication number: 20240428647
    Abstract: Customization systems for gaming systems including gaming system configuration systems configured to utilize customizations and related customization data for the configuration of one or more gaming systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher M. Levin, Dwayne R. Nelson
  • Publication number: 20240428645
    Abstract: Customization systems for gaming systems including customization creation systems configured to enable the creation of customizations for gaming systems, and in certain embodiments, the gaming systems function as the customization creation system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher M. Levin, Dwayne R. Nelson
  • Publication number: 20240428646
    Abstract: Customization systems for gaming systems including customization marketplace systems configured to enable created customizations to be distributed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher M. Levin, Dwayne R. Nelson
  • Publication number: 20240420545
    Abstract: A gaming system compatible with patron-controlled portable electronic devices, such as smart phones or tablet computers, is described. The gaming system can include electronic gaming machines that are compatible to receive both virtual ticket vouchers and printed ticket vouchers that are redeemable for credits on the electronic gaming machines. Information associated with a virtual ticket voucher can be stored on a patron-controlled portable electronic device and then can be wireless transmitted to the electronic gaming machines. The electronic gaming machines can be configured to issue virtual ticket vouchers and printed ticket vouchers that can be redeemed for cash or additional game play on another electronic gaming machine. In one embodiment, the electronic gaming machine can be configured to issue a virtual ticket voucher to a patron-controlled portable electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Steven G. LeMay, James A. Vasquez, Scott T. Gowin
  • Publication number: 20240412588
    Abstract: Systems and methods that enable a user at a streaming device to create, configure, and transmit a live stream via a live streaming platform. In various embodiments, the streaming device provides the ability to capture the relevant game play displays displayed by the display device of the streaming device being played by the streamer and the audio of such game plays, the ability to capture the video of at least parts of the streamer, the ability to capture the audio of the streamer, the ability to control, adjust, modify, and/or otherwise configure a stream mix, the ability to view the stream mix, the ability to encode the video and audio, and/or the ability to record the stream mix including the game play related video and audio and the streamer related video and audio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 12159514
    Abstract: A gaming system configured to create electronic player sports wagering profiles for un-identified players, track each sports related wager made by each un-identified player, determine if any un-identified player has reached a sports related wager limit for a designated time period, and responsive to determining that an un-identified player has reached the sports related wager limit for the designated time period, initiate a sports wager limit resolution process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Steven Lemay, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20240395109
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine includes a cabinet, a display mounted to the cabinet, a wireless interface for communicating with a portable electronic device, a network interface for communicating with a validation server, a bill validator coupled to a game controller configured to accept bills and printed ticket vouchers, and a removable cash box. The game controller includes a processor and a memory configured to control a wager-based game played on the EGM, redeem virtual ticket vouchers and printed ticket vouchers, receive an indication to transfer value to the EGM via a virtual ticket voucher, receive the virtual ticket voucher including a virtual ticket voucher validation number from the portable electronic device via the wireless interface, validate the virtual ticket voucher with the validation server via the network interface, deposit a credit amount associated with the virtual ticket voucher, and notify the validation server that the virtual ticket voucher is redeemed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Steven G. LeMay, Jim A. Vasquez, Scott T. Gowin
  • Publication number: 20240395098
    Abstract: A system that utilizes an application running on a mobile device to provide a service window associated with a gaming establishment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin M. Higgins, Dwayne R. Nelson
  • Publication number: 20240378953
    Abstract: A gaming system compatible with patron-controlled portable electronic devices, such as smart phones or tablet computers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Steven G. LeMay