Patents by Inventor Ian Robert Scott

Ian Robert Scott 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: 12165437
    Abstract: A lottery ticket dispensing unit includes at least one ticket compartment and a separation module that has a drive roller and an opposed idler roller, with a motor geared to the drive roller. An automatic separator device is provided, wherein the drive roller conveys a leading lottery ticket to a separation position such that a line between the leading ticket and an adjacent ticket is presented to the separator device. The separator device includes a shuttle that travels in a linear path along the line, the shuttle having a head that engages and separates the leading ticket from the adjacent ticket along the line. A bi-directional drive mechanism moves the shuttle back and forth along the linear path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Scientific Games, LLC
    Inventors: Sten Hallundbaek Mejenborg, William F. Behm, James Jonathan Holbrook, Mark Andrew Thompson, Ian Robert Scott
  • Patent number: 11995944
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a gaming device including a memory, a processor, a display, and a call tower. The call tower extends upwardly from the gaming device, such as above the display. The call tower includes a call tower video display and may include one or more plates, such as light or image plates. The gaming device includes a processor which presents a game via the display and causes the plates and/or call tower video display to display information, such as images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Ian Robert Scott, Karl Frederick Zedell, Jr., Daniel Kendall Harden
  • Patent number: 11900759
    Abstract: A lottery ticket dispensing unit includes at least one ticket compartment and a separation module that has a drive roller and an opposed idler roller. A motor is geared to the drive roller and is switchable between a convey mode wherein the drive roller engages and conveys a leading ticket to a separation position and a brake mode wherein the motor provides a reverse retarding force to the drive roller to brake the drive roller against an attempted reeling of the lottery tickets. from the dispensing unit. A controller switches the motor between the convey and brakes modes such that in the brake mode, power to the motor is interrupted and windings in the motor are short-circuited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Scientific Games, LLC
    Inventors: Sten Hallundbaek Mejenborg, James Jonathan Holbrook, Ian Robert Scott
  • Patent number: 11734989
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a gaming device including a memory, a processor, a display, a plurality of display areas located on the display, and a plurality of external lights located at an outer area of a front surface of the electronic gaming device. The plurality of external lights forming au-shape with a left side, a right side, and a bottom where each of the left side, the right side, and the bottom includes a first light column, a second light column, and a third light column. The gaming device including a processor that initiates a base game via the plurality of display areas located on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Sigmund Hyunjai Lee, Karl Frederick Zedell, Jr., Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Ian Robert Scott, Wei Gu, Daniel Kendall Harden, Ariel David Turgel
  • Patent number: 11657653
    Abstract: A lottery ticket dispensing system includes a cabinet housing and a lottery ticket array insertable into the cabinet housing. The array includes a plurality of individual bins in a stacked configuration. A dispensing unit is inserted into each of the bins and includes a ticket compartment in which a continuous strip of lottery tickets is contained and an automatic separation module in which a leading ticket of the continuous strip of lottery tickets is automatically separated and dispensed from the bin. The bins are connected together in the stacked configuration such that the lottery ticket array is insertable into and removable from the cabinet housing as a single unit. The stacked configuration has opposite sides defined by the sides of the bins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Scientific Games, LLC
    Inventors: Sten Hallundbaek Mejenborg, James Jonathan Holbrook, Mark Andrew Thompson, Ian Robert Scott
  • Publication number: 20230055669
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a gaming device including a memory, a processor, a display, and a call tower. The call tower extends upwardly from the gaming device, such as above the display. The call tower includes a call tower video display and may include one or more plates, such as light or image plates. The gaming device includes a processor which presents a game via the display and causes the plates and/or call tower video display to display information, such as images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Ian Robert Scott, Karl Frederick Zedell, JR., Daniel Kendall Harden
  • Patent number: 11436889
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a gaming device including a memory, a processor, a display, and a call tower. The call tower extends upwardly from the gaming device, such as above the display. The call tower includes a call tower video display and may include one or more plates, such as light or image plates. The gaming device includes a processor which presents a game via the display and causes the plates and/or call tower video display to display information, such as images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Ian Robert Scott, Karl Frederick Zedell, Jr., Daniel Kendall Harden
  • Patent number: 11377292
    Abstract: A lottery ticket bin for use in multi-bin dispenser array includes a housing having an open top and a drawer that slides into and out of the housing, the drawer also having an open top and a ticket compartment for receipt of a supply of interconnected lottery tickets through the open top. A component section adjacent a front of the drawer includes a first cable connection port, and a second cable connection port is fixed to the housing adjacent the component section in a closed position of the drawer, the second cable connection port in communication with a circuit board fixed to an exterior of the housing. A cable is connected between the first and second cable connection ports and a length so as to accommodate a fully open position of the drawer relative to the housing. The cable folds into a cable storage section configured with the drawer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Scientific Games, LLC
    Inventors: Sten Hallundbaek Mejenborg, Mark Andrew Thompson, James Jonathan Holbrook, Ian Robert Scott
  • Publication number: 20220114842
    Abstract: A lottery ticket dispensing system includes a cabinet housing and a lottery ticket array insertable into the cabinet housing. The array includes a plurality of individual bins in a stacked configuration. A dispensing unit is inserted into each of the bins and includes a ticket compartment in which a continuous strip of lottery tickets is contained and an automatic separation module in which a leading ticket of the continuous strip of lottery tickets is automatically separated and dispensed from the bin. The bins are connected together in the stacked configuration such that the lottery ticket array is insertable into and removable from the cabinet housing as a single unit. The stacked configuration has opposite sides defined by the sides of the bins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Sten Hallundbaek Mejenborg, James Jonathan Holbrook, Mark Andrew Thompson, Ian Robert Scott
  • Publication number: 20220114860
    Abstract: A lottery ticket dispensing unit includes at least one ticket compartment and a separation module that has a drive roller and an opposed idler roller. A motor is geared to the drive roller and is switchable between a convey mode wherein the drive roller engages and conveys a leading ticket to a separation position and a brake mode wherein the motor provides a reverse retarding force to the drive roller to brake the drive roller against an attempted reeling of the lottery tickets. from the dispensing unit. A controller switches the motor between the convey and brakes modes such that in the brake mode, power to the motor is interrupted and windings in the motor are short-circuited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Sten Hallundbaek Mejenborg, James Jonathan Holbrook, Ian Robert Scott
  • Publication number: 20220114841
    Abstract: A lottery ticket dispensing unit includes at least one ticket compartment and a separation module that has a drive roller and an opposed idler roller, with a motor geared to the drive roller. An automatic separator device is provided, wherein the drive roller conveys a leading lottery ticket to a separation position such that a line between the leading ticket and an adjacent ticket is presented to the separator device. The separator device includes a shuttle that travels in a linear path along the line, the shuttle having a head that engages and separates the leading ticket from the adjacent ticket along the line. A bi-directional drive mechanism moves the shuttle back and forth along the linear path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Sten Hallundbaek Mejenborg, William F. Behm, James Jonathan Holbrook, Mark Andrew Thompson, Ian Robert Scott
  • Patent number: 11276268
    Abstract: Push-button switches and components thereof, including push-button switch button covers, as well as methods of making the same and gaming machines having such push-button switches, are provided. The push-button switches are low profile and configured for aperture-free mounting, and the button covers are configured to convey information and have improved characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Mark Robert Brandau, Karl Frederick Zedell, Jr., Sigmund Hyunjai Lee, Ian Robert Scott, James Ely Tillery
  • Publication number: 20210327204
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a gaming device including a memory, a processor, a display, a plurality of display areas located on the display, and a plurality of external lights located at an outer area of a front surface of the electronic gaming device. The plurality of external lights forming au-shape with a left side, a right side, and a bottom where each of the left side, the right side, and the bottom includes a first light column, a second light column, and a third light column. The gaming device including a processor that initiates a base game via the plurality of display areas located on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Sigmund Hyunjai Lee, Karl Frederick Zedell, JR., Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Ian Robert Scott, Wei Gu, Daniel Kendall Harden, Ariel David Turgel
  • Patent number: 11049355
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a gaming device including a memory, a processor, a display, a plurality of display areas located on the display, and a plurality of external lights located at an outer area of a front surface of the electronic gaming device. The plurality of external lights forming au-shape with a left side, a right side, and a bottom where each of the left side, the right side, and the bottom includes a first light column, a second light column, and a third light column. The gaming device including a processor that initiates a base game via the plurality of display areas located on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Sigmund Hyunjai Lee, Karl Frederick Zedell, Jr., Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Ian Robert Scott, Wei Gu, Daniel Kendall Harden, Ariel David Turgel
  • Publication number: 20210104116
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a gaming device including a memory, a processor, a display, and a call tower. The call tower extends upwardly from the gaming device, such as above the display. The call tower includes a call tower video display and may include one or more plates, such as light or image plates. The gaming device includes a processor which presents a game via the display and causes the plates and/or call tower video display to display information, such as images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Ian Robert Scott, Karl Frederick Zedell, JR., Daniel Kendall Harden
  • Patent number: 10867465
    Abstract: A display control system for a gaming machine is described. The display control system allows a gaming machine controller to directly control attributes of one or more video displays coupled to a gaming machine. Display attributes can be adjusted to account for different machine states which can occur when the gaming machine is operating in an attract mode, game play mode and tilt mode. A few examples of display attributes which can be controlled include but are not limited to power on or off, input source selection, contrast control, brightness control and color temp control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventor: Ian Robert Scott
  • Patent number: 10854038
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to a gaming device including a memory, a processor, a display, and a call tower including a first plate, a second plate, a third plate, and a call tower display screen and/or a plurality of external lights located at an outer area of a front surface of the gaming device, forming a u-shape with a left side, a right side, and a bottom each comprising a light column. The gaming device includes a processor which presents a game via the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Ian Robert Scott, Karl Frederick Zedell, Jr., Daniel Kendall Harden
  • Publication number: 20200126346
    Abstract: Push-button switches and components thereof, including push-button switch button covers, as well as methods of making the same and gaming machines having such push-button switches, are provided. The push-button switches are low profile and configured for aperture-free mounting, and the button covers are configured to convey information and have improved characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Mark Robert Brandau, Karl Frederick Zedell, JR., Sigmund Hyunjai Lee, Ian Robert Scott, James Ely Tillery
  • Publication number: 20200095053
    Abstract: A lottery ticket bin for use in multi-bin dispenser array includes a housing having an open top and a drawer that slides into and out of the housing, the drawer also having an open top and a ticket compartment for receipt of a supply of interconnected lottery tickets through the open top. A component section adjacent a front of the drawer includes a first cable connection port, and a second cable connection port is fixed to the housing adjacent the component section in a closed position of the drawer, the second cable connection port in communication with a circuit board fixed to an exterior of the housing. A cable is connected between the first and second cable connection ports and a length so as to accommodate a fully open position of the drawer relative to the housing. The cable folds into a cable storage section configured with the drawer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Sten Hallundbaek Mejenborg, Mark Andrew Thompson, James Jonathan Holbrook, Ian Robert Scott
  • Patent number: D889554
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: AGS LLC
    Inventors: Rachel Marie Calhoun Lewis, Ian Robert Scott, Karl Frederick Zedell, Jr.