54 patents
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Utility
System and method for hosting and managing a live game
4 May 20
A system and method for hosting and managing a live game are disclosed which includes a live gaming table for live players and a live dealer.
Ryan Yee, Jeremy A. Halter, Mark Lowell, Scott Hilbert, Dat Huy Ta, Sridhar Gondesi, William Jones, Joseph R. Hedrick
Filed: 21 Feb 18
Utility
Gaming machine using multiple triggers to determine an award from a subset of displayed awards
4 May 20
A gaming system includes at least one input device adapted to receive a physical item associated with a monetary value that establishes a credit balance, an input indicative of a wager drawn on the credit balance for a wagering game, and a cashout input that initiates a payout from the credit balance.
Jack Chesworth, George Napoleon Bouvier, Kimberly Cohn, Daniel P. Louie, Kenneth Shawn Soong
Filed: 1 Mar 18
Utility
Auditing and reconciliation system and method for gaming machines operating a stand-alone progressive jackpot
27 Apr 20
In a casino environment including one or more gaming machines each operating one or more standalone progressive (SAP) jackpots defined by local SAP controllers, a system is set forth whereby the SAP jackpot information is additionally determined at a backend system.
Sudheer Vemuri, Mark Lowell, Ram Kumar Karnataka
Filed: 25 Feb 18
Utility
Unified digital wallet
30 Mar 20
A unified wallet manager (UWM) virtualized as a single virtual service in which all transactions relative to the UWM are treated as immutable facts permanently stored in append-only queues or ledgers from the time of their creation.
John P. Toohey, Cherie M. Duncan
Filed: 18 Sep 16
Utility
Card shuffling apparatus and card handling device
2 Mar 20
A device for forming a random set of playing cards comprises a card in-feed area, a shuffling system, a card removal area, and a card reading system located within the device, the card reading system employing a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensor and a hardware component, the hardware component capable of converting signals from the CMOS sensor into vector sets and comparing the vector sets to known vectors to determine rank and suit.
Justin G. Downs, III, Vladislav Zvercov, James R. Roberts, Kapilkumar N. Kulakkunnath
Filed: 1 Mar 18
Utility
System and method for selective power and secure communications via an electronic gaming machine interface
2 Mar 20
A gaming system includes a secure communication board having a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface and/or a wireless interface accessible externally to players and administrators of the gaming system.
Timothy C. Loose, Walter E. Smolucha
Filed: 15 Sep 15
Utility
Gaming machine with integral features for ease of assembly
24 Feb 20
A gaming machine includes a monitor subassembly, a game control core, and a structural frame that may be manufactured and shipped separately to a final destination and assembled on-site.
Brian Goldstein, Michael David Owens, Abraham D. Usi
Filed: 7 Jun 18
Utility
Card shufflers and gaming tables having shufflers
24 Feb 20
A playing card shuffling device includes a visual display in information communication with the playing card shuffling device.
James B. Stasson, Ronald R. Swanson, Paul K. Scheper, Troy D. Nelson, Feraidoon Bourbour, Attila Grauzer
Filed: 25 Sep 17
Utility
Remote game play in a wireless gaming environment
17 Feb 20
A system employs a server computing system with an integrated database and wireless communications devices.
Arun Rajaraman, Sathish Kumar Anantharaman, William Lewis
Filed: 28 Nov 17
Utility
Combination bill entry/ticket dispensing structure for a gaming machine
10 Feb 20
Disclosed are an input/output structure, a gaming machine including such a structure and a method for use of the input/output structure.
Timothy Kelley, Gordon H. Myers
Filed: 27 Sep 18
Utility
Card handling devices comprising angled support surfaces
3 Feb 20
A device for forming a random set of playing cards is disclosed.
Paul K. Scheper, James B. Stasson, Ronald R. Swanson, Troy D. Nelson, Attila Grauzer
Filed: 23 Mar 15
Utility
Gaming machine having a dual chute
27 Jan 20
The present invention provides a gaming machine including a cabinet housing which houses a receiver and a dispenser.
Martin Anthony Peltz, Philip Laroach, Charles R. Miller, Sr., Gordon Myers, Kurt Spencer
Filed: 18 Jun 18
Utility
Gaming tables and methods for administering roulette bonus wagers using a roulette ball launching system
27 Jan 20
Methods of administering games of roulette may involve accepting a wager may from a player and using a ball launching system to launch at least one roulette ball into a track of a roulette wheel.
Roger M. Snow, Haven A. Mercer, Troy D. Nelson, James P. Helgesen, Paul K. Scheper, Jamal Hani Kotifani, Georg Fekete
Filed: 25 Sep 16
Utility
Flush mounted card shuffler that elevates cards
13 Jan 20
A device for forming a random set of playing cards is disclosed.
Feraidoon Bourbour, Paul K. Scheper, Troy D. Nelson, James B. Stasson, Ronald R. Swanson, Attila Grauzer
Filed: 22 Jun 15
Utility
Chip racks including a rack for holding chips and a card reader and related devices
13 Jan 20
Chip racks include a rack for holding chips and a card reader.
Arthur C. Miller, Dean A. Isaacs, Russell D. Isaacs, William Florence
Filed: 24 Sep 18
Utility
Methods of feeding cards
6 Jan 20
A card-feeding device for feeding cards into a card-handling device may include a card infeed area that supports a stack of cards, where a pivoting arm presses against a card at the top of the stack.
Ronald R. Swanson
Filed: 12 Sep 17
Utility
Uses of mobile devices in transmitting activities of a player in a wagering establishment to a social network
6 Jan 20
In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for operating a client application program on a mobile device includes: determining, by the client application program on the mobile device, that a player has participated in activities in a wagering game establishment; determining, by the client application program on the mobile device, information about the activities in the wagering game establishment; and transmitting, by the client application to a social network, an electronic message to post on the social network information indicating the player activities in the wagering game establishment.
Thomas S. Abouchar, Martin J. Biernat, Andrew C. Guinn, Damon E. Gura, Mahesh Lakshmanaperumal, Richard B. Robbins
Filed: 19 Nov 17
Utility
Anonymous funding and tracking of sports wagering across multiple devices
6 Jan 20
A gaming system includes a network accessible sports betting server that allows players to anonymously place wagers on sporting events using an anonymous account identifier that is not associated with any personal information of the player.
Peter R. Anderson, Vladislav Modilevsky
Filed: 19 Sep 16
Utility
System and method for reducing network dependencies for streaming content
6 Jan 20
A system and method for reducing network dependencies for streaming content is disclosed.
Martin S. Lyons
Filed: 7 Dec 14
Utility
Linked communications for gaming systems using acoustic signatures
16 Dec 19
A gaming system includes logic circuitry and a gaming machine for conducting a casino wagering game.
Martin Lyons, Ronald Gray
Filed: 24 Sep 18