Patents by Inventor Lee Amaitis

Lee Amaitis 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: 11769370
    Abstract: Apparatus and method provide for wagering across multiple gaming operators operating at respective locations, using respective accounts accessible according to a location of a player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventors: Lee Amaitis, Paul Williams
  • Publication number: 20230285852
    Abstract: Various embodiments that may generally relate to mobile gaming, location determination, mobile devices, authentication, and so on are described. Various methods are described. Various apparatuses are described. Further embodiments are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Lee Amaitis, Paul Williams, Sunny Tara, Matthew Morrissette
  • Patent number: 11752422
    Abstract: Systems and methods related to the play of games that include interim betting. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventors: Lee Amaitis, Kevin Burman
  • Patent number: 11741790
    Abstract: Various embodiments that may generally relate to one or more competitions. Such competitions may include a plurality of rounds. A round may include a player attempting to choose a winner of an event on which a round is based. A surviving player after a number of rounds may be a winner of a competition. Various apparatus and methods are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventors: Lee Amaitis, Kenneth L Miller, Jason Simbal, Craig Lipka, Phillip Flaherty
  • Patent number: 11727763
    Abstract: Various methods and apparatus related to gaming are described. Some embodiments relate to a multi-tiered game involving multiple participants. Some embodiments relate to players establishing gaming elements based on desired criteria. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventor: Lee Amaitis
  • Publication number: 20230249087
    Abstract: Some embodiments include a fantasy sports game. In some embodiments, an expected performance value may be determined. In some embodiments, a same player may appear multiple times in a team. Various other embodiments are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Lee Amaitis, Phillip Flaherty, Andrew Garrood
  • Publication number: 20230252859
    Abstract: Various methods and apparatus related to gaming are described. Some embodiments relate to a multi-tiered game involving multiple participants. Some embodiments relate to players from a plurality of gaming operators playing games with one another. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Lee Amaitis, Phillip Flaherty
  • Publication number: 20230237875
    Abstract: A user may purchase an option to cancel a wager in exchange for a refund amount. In purchasing the option, the user may select an exercise time from a plurality of exercise times, each exercise time having an associated price, which price may be the price of the option. The refund amount associated with each exercise time may be the same amount. Responsive to a user exercising a purchased option, a determination may be made as to whether the time of exercise is at least prior to the selected exercise time. If so, the wager may be canceled in exchange for the refund amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Lee Amaitis, Andrew Garrood
  • Publication number: 20230177925
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a successive choice game including methods and apparatus are described. Further embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Lee Amaitis, Noel Fuentes
  • Publication number: 20230115090
    Abstract: An interaction and/or combined efforts of a pool and a book may provide an increased flexibility over a traditional book of wagers and a traditional pool of wagers. Various examples of accepting and forming one or more wagers by a book and a pool are described that enhance the ability to make wager related offers to wagerers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Lee Amaitis, Kenneth L. Miller
  • Publication number: 20230092934
    Abstract: Some embodiments may include interaction among sports books. Various other systems and methods are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Lee Amaitis, Andrew Garrood
  • Publication number: 20230077796
    Abstract: Some embodiments include a fantasy sports wagering game. A gaming operator may assign real life sporting players into brackets based on their expected performance so that players with similar expected performance are in a same bracket as each other. Participants in a fantasy sports wagering game may be required to select a player from each of a plurality of brackets to form a fantasy sports team for the fantasy sports wagering game.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Lee Amaitis, Matthew Holt, Mike Colbert, Reed Stephens
  • Patent number: 11557180
    Abstract: Various methods and apparatus related to gaming are described. Some embodiments relate to a multi-tiered game involving multiple participants. Some embodiments relate to players from a plurality of gaming operators playing games with one another. Other embodiments are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventors: Lee Amaitis, Phillip Flaherty
  • Publication number: 20230005323
    Abstract: Various methods and apparatus related to parlay wagering are described. In some embodiments, real time parlay odds may be offered. Further embodiments are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Lee Amaitis, Andrew Garrood
  • Publication number: 20220415124
    Abstract: Various embodiments include game configurations that are specific to a location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Dean P. Alderucci, Lee Amaitis, Geoffrey M. Gelman
  • Publication number: 20220387898
    Abstract: Various embodiments that may generally relate to mobile gaming, location determination, mobile devices, authentication, and so on are described. Various methods are described. Various apparatus are described. Further embodiments are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Lee Amaitis, Paul Williams, Sunny Tara
  • Publication number: 20220392305
    Abstract: Some embodiments related to account based wagering across multiple gaming operators. Various apparatus and methods are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Lee Amaitis, Paul Williams
  • Publication number: 20220383704
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for managing a wagering system. In one exemplary embodiment, state information of a live event such as a sports game may be received in real time. During the event, a plurality of possible future states of the event and their associated probabilities (and odds) may be determined based on the state information, historical information, and current in-game information. A betting market is created for betting on the possible future states at determined odds. The betting market is closed and winning and losing bets are resolved based on updated state information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Lee Amaitis, Andrew Garrood, Mike Colbert, Heather Parks, Anthony Storm, Foster Barton, Thomas D. Bradshaw
  • Publication number: 20220370900
    Abstract: In accordance with the teachings of the present invention, a system and method for wireless gaming with location determination are provided. In a particular embodiment of the present invention, the system includes a gaming server; a wireless network at least partially covering a property, the wireless network comprising a plurality of signal detection devices; and a gaming communication device operable to transmit and receive gaming information to and from the gaming server via the wireless network. A location of the gaming communication device on the property may be determined based upon a signal received by the plurality of signal detection devices from the gaming communication device. Based upon the location of the gaming communication device on the property, a predetermined functionality of the gaming communication device may be enabled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Lee Amaitis, Joseph M. Asher, Robert F. Bahrampour, Darrin M. Mylet, Alan B. Wilkins, Howard W. Lutnick
  • Patent number: 11508203
    Abstract: Some embodiments may include interaction among sports books. Various other systems and methods are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: CFPH, LLC
    Inventors: Lee Amaitis, Andrew Garrood