Patents by Inventor Patrick Danielson

Patrick Danielson 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: 11551507
    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: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Patrick Danielson, Dwayne Nelson, Samantha Ascheri-Phillips, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 11544995
    Abstract: Systems and methods that enable a user, such as a player, to manage persistent data, such as game state data, remote from any electronic gaming machine, such as via a mobile device executing a mobile device application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventor: Patrick Danielson
  • Publication number: 20220406137
    Abstract: Provided are systems for providing ticket and cashless discount offers. As system includes a processor circuit that receives, from a player, a request for a cashout that corresponds to a cash balance held by the player at the end of a gaming session. A cashout bonus status that corresponds to the player and to the gaming session is determined. A bonus portion that is based on the cashout bonus status and the cash balance is determined. The system transmits an offer message to the player. The offer message includes an offer to allocate the bonus portion and the cash balance to be spent with a predefined vendor that is associated with a game provider. If the player accepts the offer, the bonus portion and at least a portion of the cash balance are transferred to an account that is associated with the player and the predefined vendor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Samantha ASCHERI-PHILLIPS, Patrick DANIELSON, Dwayne NELSON
  • Patent number: 11521466
    Abstract: Leaderboard promotions in gaming systems which provide one or more players one or more benefits in association with maintaining one or more designated positions on a leaderboard for a designated duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Patrick Danielson, Cameron Filipour
  • Publication number: 20220319274
    Abstract: Gaming systems and methods that enable multiple players to share credit meters on electronic gaming machines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick Danielson, Dwayne Nelson, Vincent Lai
  • Patent number: 11450175
    Abstract: Provided are systems for providing ticket and cashless discount offers. As system includes a processor circuit that receives, from a player, a request for a cashout that corresponds to a cash balance held by the player at the end of a gaming session. A cashout bonus status that corresponds to the player and to the gaming session is determined. A bonus portion that is based on the cashout bonus status and the cash balance is determined. The system transmits an offer message to the player. The offer message includes an offer to allocate the bonus portion and the cash balance to be spent with a predefined vendor that is associated with a game provider. If the player accepts the offer, the bonus portion and at least a portion of the cash balance are transferred to an account that is associated with the player and the predefined vendor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Samantha Ascheri-Phillips, Patrick Danielson, Dwayne Nelson
  • Publication number: 20220292916
    Abstract: Systems and methods that enable a user, such as a player, to manage persistent data, such as game state data, remote from any electronic gaming machine, such as via a mobile device executing a mobile device application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventor: Patrick Danielson
  • Publication number: 20220245992
    Abstract: A roulette wheel device, and related devices, systems, and methods, includes a base coupled to a table, the base having a circular ball track within a circular rim. The roulette wheel device further includes a circular wheelhead rotatably coupled to the base within the ball track. The wheelhead includes a circular ring having a plurality of pockets, wherein the circular ball track is sloped downwardly toward the circular ring to direct a roulette ball into one of the plurality of pockets. The wheelhead further includes a circular display subassembly including a display device to selectively display graphical elements corresponding to the plurality of pockets. The circular ball track, the circular ring, and the circular display subassembly are substantially concentric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick Danielson, Samantha Ascheri-Phillips, Dwayne Nelson, Vincent Lai
  • Patent number: 11380162
    Abstract: Gaming systems and methods that enable multiple players to share credit meters on electronic gaming machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Patrick Danielson, Dwayne Nelson, Vincent Lai
  • Patent number: 11315382
    Abstract: A roulette wheel device, and related devices, systems, and methods, includes a base coupled to a table, the base having a circular ball track within a circular rim. The roulette wheel device further includes a circular wheelhead rotatably coupled to the base within the ball track. The wheelhead includes a circular ring having a plurality of pockets, wherein the circular ball track is sloped downwardly toward the circular ring to direct a roulette ball into one of the plurality of pockets. The wheelhead further includes a circular display subassembly including a display device to selectively display graphical elements corresponding to the plurality of pockets. The circular ball track, the circular ring, and the circular display subassembly are substantially concentric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Patrick Danielson, Samantha Ascheri-Phillips, Dwayne Nelson, Vincent Lai
  • Publication number: 20220114861
    Abstract: Systems and methods which utilize pausing and/or replaying of one or more aspects of a stream of a sporting event displayed to a player at an electronic gaming machine whom is wagering on the displayed sporting event and/or one or more wagering games at the electronic gaming machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Patrick Danielson, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 11282331
    Abstract: A mixed reality system includes a video capture device, a display, a processing device, and a memory coupled to the processing device. The memory includes machine readable instructions for causing the processing device to generate, via the video capture device, a live video signal of a scene associated with a field of view of a user, wherein the scene includes a gaming device displaying a plurality of first gaming elements as part of a wagering game. The memory further includes machine readable instructions for causing the processing device to determine, based on the live video signal, virtual element in real time. The memory further includes machine readable instructions for causing the processing device to display the virtual element to the user, via the display, as part of the scene so that the virtual element is associated with the gaming device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Patrick Danielson
  • Publication number: 20220051518
    Abstract: Gaming systems that employ a timer to make one or more inputs, wherein different amounts of time of the timer are based on different inputs made.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Vincent S. Lai, Patrick Danielson, Dwayne R. Nelson
  • Patent number: 11222504
    Abstract: Systems and methods which utilize pausing and/or replaying of one or more aspects of a stream of a sporting event displayed to a player at an electronic gaming machine whom is wagering on the displayed sporting event and/or one or more wagering games at the electronic gaming machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Patrick Danielson, Kevin Higgins
  • Patent number: 11195366
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a gaming token representing a wager amount placed in a game that can provide different sensory feedback responses in response to different sensed contexts associated with the token. Illustratively, a method of facilitating player interaction in a game includes receiving, by a gaming system, a gaming token representing a wager amount placed in a game; receiving, by a processor of the gaming system from a context sensor, input that a context is associated with the gaming token; determining by the processor, from among a plurality of different possible sensory feedback responses, a selected sensory feedback response corresponding to a determined context; and causing, by the processor, the gaming token to produce the processor selected sensory feedback response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Patrick Danielson, Dwayne Nelson, Samantha Ascheri-Phillips
  • Patent number: 11195334
    Abstract: A live video signal of a scene associated with a field of view of a user may be generated. The scene may include a casino gaming floor that includes multiple wagering stations. A location in the scene and a virtual element may be determined, based on the live video signal of the scene. The virtual element may be displayed to the user in the location in the scene so that the virtual element is in the field of view of the user using an augmented reality (AR) device. An user input that corresponds to the virtual element may be received and an action of the virtual element responsive to receiving the user input may be generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne Nelson, Patrick Danielson
  • Patent number: 11170602
    Abstract: Gaming systems that employ a timer to make one or more inputs, wherein different amounts of time of the timer are based on different inputs made.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Vincent S. Lai, Patrick Danielson, Dwayne R. Nelson
  • Patent number: 11164416
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to media and multimedia synchronization systems and methods. As a non-limiting example, a gaming system and method processes event-related signals from gaming devices to identify a particular occurrence of an event and generates a media content message based on the particular occurrence of the event and transmits the media content message to multiple target gaming devices. The multiple target gaming devices determine which of their output devices is available and causes the available output devices to present, synchronously with the output devices of the other target gaming devices, the media content to collectively provide a selected presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Patrick Danielson, Dwayne Nelson, Samantha Ascheri-Phillips
  • Publication number: 20210335084
    Abstract: A gaming device, and related devices, methods, and systems, initiates a wagering game at a primary gaming device associated with a primary player. The system receives a first message from a secondary gaming device associated with a secondary player. The first message includes a request to access the wagering game at the secondary gaming device. The system receives a second message from the primary gaming device authorizing the secondary gaming device to access the wagering game. The secondary gaming device, in response to receiving the second message, displays user interface elements representative of the wagering game being played by the primary player in near-real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Samantha ASCHERI-PHILLIPS, Patrick DANIELSON, Dwayne NELSON
  • Publication number: 20210319666
    Abstract: A system which offers different conditional sporting event wagering opportunities
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: William Salivar, Dwayne R. Nelson, Patrick Danielson