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).

  • Publication number: 20250148861
    Abstract: A system that facilitates the transfer of an amount funds between one or more gaming establishment accounts associated with a player and one or more gaming table components associated with a gaming establishment gaming table currently associated with the player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins, Erik Petersen
  • Publication number: 20250148868
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transferring funds from a financial institution account to a cashless wagering account and then to an electronic gaming machine without utilizing any physical forms of currency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Sina Miri, Erik B. Petersen, Kevin Higgins, Dwayne A. Davis, Matthew Levin
  • Publication number: 20250148867
    Abstract: Systems and methods that enable, at the conclusion of a session at a client device, the refunding of one or more wagers placed at the client device on one or more events occurring at a streaming device in association with a live streaming platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250148863
    Abstract: Systems and methods that enable one or more notifications to be communicated to one or more users at one or more devices in association with one or more events occurring in association with a live streaming platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250148862
    Abstract: Systems and methods that enable the refunding of one or more wagers placed at a client device on one or more events occurring at a streaming device in association with a live streaming platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250148864
    Abstract: Systems and methods that enable, based on the satisfaction of one or more conditions, one or more notifications to be communicated to one or more users at one or more devices in association with one or more events occurring in association with a live streaming platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250148870
    Abstract: A system and method that facilitates the transferring of funds between different financial institution accounts based on the transferring of funds between different gaming establishment accounts associated with different gaming establishments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 12293633
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Jeffery Shepherd
  • 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: 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: 20250124761
    Abstract: A system that operates to monitor for a line of credit settlement event and, responsive to an occurrence of such an event, utilize a payment instrument and a hotel payment system to pay off an amount of funds accessed from a gaming establishment credit system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Dwayne R. Nelson
  • Publication number: 20250124757
    Abstract: Technology for managing a player session at a gaming table is disclosed. A table management system receives identifying information of a player seated at the gaming table transmitted by a mobile device associated with the player. The identifying information includes a seating position of the player at the gaming table, the seating position determined by the mobile device through interaction with a locating device placed at the seating position at the gaming table. The table management system generates the player session for the player for playing a wagering game at the gaming table using the identifying information of the player transmitted by the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Erik Petersen, Christopher Levin, Eduardo Meza, Jeffery Shepherd
  • 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: 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: 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: 20250104175
    Abstract: A system and method that utilizes funds associated with one or more gaming establishment accounts maintained for a user to procure one or more pre-paid cards associated with a retailer and used to complete one or more purchases of goods and/or services from the retailer. To facilitate the use of pre-paid cards, the system and method automatically issues (if needed) and funds one or more pre-paid cards which are then used by the system to complete a retail purchase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Jeffery Shepherd
  • 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