Patents by Inventor Kevin Higgins

Kevin Higgins 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: 12374187
    Abstract: Systems and methods that synchronize the presentation of events on a client device with events occurring on a streaming device and being streamed to the client device by a live streaming platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 12374192
    Abstract: Systems and methods that enable different users to obtain different outcomes in association with the same game streamed by a live streaming platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 12373835
    Abstract: Systems and methods that utilize funds accessed from a gaming establishment front money handling system to provide an overdraft protection feature to one or more gaming establishment accounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 12367741
    Abstract: A system that tracks the funding source of an amount of funds as the funds are transferred between various accounts or balances of various components of the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Jeffery Shepherd
  • Publication number: 20250232642
    Abstract: Systems and methods that orchestrate security measures between one or more gaming establishment accounts and/or a payment instrument, such as a debit card, employed to access funds associated with the gaming establishment account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2025
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Jeffery Shepherd
  • Patent number: 12361482
    Abstract: A system that facilitates a transfer of an amount of funds associated with a line of credit to a gaming establishment account and then to a gaming device, such as an EGM, wherein the amount of funds associated with the line of credit is separately tracked by the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250225835
    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: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Dwayne Nelson
  • Patent number: 12354440
    Abstract: A system configured to manage progressive pools can include 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 system to perform operations. The operations include determining to cease operation of a first progressive game on a first electronic gaming machines (“EGM”). The first progressive game can be associated with a first progressive pool. The operations can further include, allocating a portion of the first progressive pool to a second progressive pool associated with a second progressive game based on a characteristic of the first progressive game and a characteristic of the second progressive game. The operations further include, responsive to determining to cease operation of the first progressive game, transmitting a message to the first EGM, the message including instructions to cease operation of the first progressive game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Kevin Higgins, Christopher Levin
  • Patent number: 12354112
    Abstract: Systems and methods that operate to enable tipping with gaming establishment retail and entertainment purchases made in association with a gaming establishment fund management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250218250
    Abstract: Systems and methods that utilize funds associated with a financial account rewards program to modify an amount maintained in association with a gaming establishment account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Jeffery Shepherd
  • Patent number: 12340659
    Abstract: A system that utilizes a mobile device and a funding instrument associated with an external funding source to first transfer funds from the external funding source to a gaming establishment account and then, responsive to a completion of the first transfer, automatically transfer funds from the gaming establishment account to an electronic gaming machine and/or a gaming table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250201057
    Abstract: Systems and methods that track ticket vouchers issuances occurring at a gaming establishment device in association with gaming establishment personnel and employ one or more limits on the redemption of such ticket vouchers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Erik Petersen
  • Publication number: 20250201070
    Abstract: Systems and methods that utilize a cashless payment terminal to transfer funds from an electronic gaming machine to a financial institution account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Jose Diego Sanchez Miranda, Jason Ingles, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250201075
    Abstract: Systems and methods that responsive to an authorized purchase transaction at a point-of-sale terminal using an amount of funds maintained in an integrated bank account associated with a user, determine a gaming establishment account associated with the user, and operate with a component of a gaming establishment system that maintains the gaming establishment account to cause, based on the authorized purchase transaction a benefit to be associated with the gaming establishment account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250201065
    Abstract: Systems and methods that track memory clearing events occurring at a gaming establishment device and employ such tracked events to detect potential fraudulent behavior by gaming establishment personnel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Erik Petersen
  • Publication number: 20250200650
    Abstract: Systems and methods that link a gaming establishment account with a created bank account and enable a user to employ the created bank account to access funds in association with a gaming establishment fund management system that maintains the gaming establishment account as well as independent of the gaming establishment fund management system that maintains the gaming establishment account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250201062
    Abstract: Systems and methods that utilize a cashless payment terminal to transfer funds to an electronic gaming machine from a financial institution account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Jose Diego Sanchez Miranda, Jason Ingles, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250201066
    Abstract: Systems and methods that track ticket voucher issuances occurring at a gaming establishment device and employ such tracked issuances to detect potential fraudulent behavior by gaming establishment personnel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Erik Petersen
  • Publication number: 20250201068
    Abstract: Systems and methods that, following a requested transaction against an integrated bank account created on behalf of a user, determine, based on a limit associated with a gaming establishment account linked to the integrated bank account, whether to proceed with the requested transaction. Responsive to the determination being that the requested transaction complies with the limit associated with the gaming establishment account, the systems and methods operate with a component of a banking institution to attempt to complete the requested transaction. Responsive to the determination being that the requested transaction does not comply with the limit associated with the gaming establishment account, the systems and methods terminate the requested transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250201071
    Abstract: Systems and methods that utilize a cashless payment terminal to transfer, in accordance with a funding source, funds between an electronic gaming machine and a financial institution account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Jose Diego Sanchez Miranda, Jason Ingles, Kevin Higgins