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: 20250201067
    Abstract: Systems and methods that track currency received at a gaming establishment device in association with a servicing of the gaming establishment device and employ such tracked currency received 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: 20250201072
    Abstract: Systems and methods that synchronize states between an electronic gaming machine and a cashless payment terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Jose Diego Sanchez Miranda, Jason Ingles, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250201069
    Abstract: Systems and methods that, following an occurrence of a settlement event, determine a transaction against an integrated bank account that is associated with a user and linked to a gaming establishment account associated with that user. Following the occurrence of the settlement event, the systems and methods additionally operate with a component of a banking institution to reconcile the integrated bank account against at least a backing bank account associated with the gaming establishment account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250201074
    Abstract: Systems and methods that track funds processed at a gaming establishment device in association with a servicing of the gaming establishment device and employ such tracking 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: 20250201063
    Abstract: Systems and methods that employ one or more responsible gaming limits in utilizing a cashless payment terminal to transfer 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
  • Publication number: 20250201081
    Abstract: Gaming systems and methods that provide a display of a plurality of different personal tournaments, enable a player to select one of the personal tournaments, cause a display and enable the player to play the selected personal tournament, determine if the player achieves or exceeds a standard for the play of the personal tournament, determine any award for the play of the personal tournament based on whether the player achieves or exceeds the standard for the play of the personal tournament, cause a display of any such determined award, and cause any such determined award to be provided to the player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins, Donald Dusich
  • Publication number: 20250182576
    Abstract: Systems and methods that offer a secondary market award based on one or more predictions made in association with a primary market award.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2025
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250174080
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to gaming machines, retrofit card readers for gaming machines, and methods of operating gaming machines and retrofit card readers. As an example, a method is disclosed that includes receiving an indication that a wireless communication module has wirelessly communicated with a player credential, synthesizing a state change that emulates a physical card insertion event in response to receiving the indication that the wireless communication module has wirelessly communicated with the player credential, and communicating the synthesized state change to a Slot Machine Interface Board (SMIB). The synthesized state change may be communicated with a set of electrical signals that include a card detection state and data read from the player credential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2025
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Erik Petersen
  • Publication number: 20250174081
    Abstract: A system that accounts for different channels of commerce in offering a line of credit to a gaming establishment patron and/or enabling the gaming establishment patron the opportunity to activate funds associated with an issued line of credit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2025
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Inventors: Jeffery Shepherd, Kevin Higgins
  • Publication number: 20250166451
    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: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Erik Petersen, Christopher Levin, Eduardo Meza, Jeffery Shepherd
  • Publication number: 20250166459
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a system that enables funds associated with certain controlling gaming establishment accounts to be accessed by certain other controlled gaming establishment accounts which have a predefined relationship with the controlling gaming establishment accounts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Jeffery Shepherd
  • Publication number: 20250157291
    Abstract: A system that enables funds automatically transferred into the system from one or more funding sources in anticipation of such funds being used in association with various system components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2025
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Inventors: Kevin Higgins, Jeffery Shepherd
  • 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: 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
  • 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: 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: 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
  • 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