22 patents
Utility
Technician Input-free Reconfiguration of Secured Gaming System
1 Jul 21
A progressive pool controller within a gaming environment can have programmable contents thereof retrieved or changed without need for user interaction with the controller other than inserting a dynamically-linkable and reprogrammable storage device (e.g., a USB flash drive) into an I/O receptacle of the controller.
Anil Kumar Narra, Jasonlee Kissee Hohman, Scott Andrew Melnick
Filed: 16 Feb 21
Utility
Electronic Gaming Device with Call Tower Functionality
8 Apr 21
Examples disclosed herein relate to a gaming device including a memory, a processor, a display, and a call tower.
Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Ian Robert Scott, Karl Frederick Zedell, JR., Daniel Kendall Harden
Filed: 30 Nov 20
Utility
Randomly Modulated Boosted Feature Areas for Slot Machines
1 Apr 21
A gaming machine produces boosted feature areas of different sizes and/or shapes and/or locations based on chance and alerts players and bystanders of such changes when they happen.
Paul Luke Lombardo
Filed: 26 Sep 19
Utility
Methods, Devices and Systems for Processing Wagers Associated with Games Having Multiple Wagers
25 Mar 21
In a method and system for presenting a game, such as a table game having a base portion and at least one side bet feature, a single combined wager is received, such as at a first wagering location as detected by a wager input sensor, and the combined wager is allocated, such as by a table controller, to an ante required for the base portion of the game and to a side bet required to the side bet feature of the game.
Jamie Abrahamson, Zbigniew Czyzewski, Michael Skvorzov
Filed: 2 Dec 20
Utility
Addition of Auto-configured Progressive Settings to Play Station of Secured Gaming System
25 Mar 21
The configuring of an electronic gaming machine (EGM) to participate in pools managed by a progressive pools managing controller (PPMC) can be complex.
Anil Kumar Narra, Leah Anne Pinnow, Kenny Mah, Cameron Lars Karlsson
Filed: 10 Dec 20
Utility
Gaming System with Pre-calibrated Sensor for Detecting Chip and Finger Placement
18 Mar 21
Gaming tables that support wager-based gaming are provided with input receiving devices that are structured to intuitively message to players what kind of wagers are permitted at which betting positions and when and then to automatically detect timely placement of such wagers at corresponding betting positions.
Rachel Wolf Kroupp, Ezra Christopher MacKenna, John Victor Zambito
Filed: 12 Sep 19
Utility
Jackpot Chance for Randomly Picked Seat Positions at Mixed Tables Featuring Community Side Bets
4 Mar 21
Table-based gaming actions are disclosed where additional prizes or other gains can be awarded when a community event occurs at a given table and the event had been wagered upon by side bets placed at that table.
Jamie Allan Abrahamson
Filed: 13 Aug 20
Utility
Method and Device for Presenting and Playing a Card-type Game
4 Mar 21
In a method of presenting a game, a player places a game play wager and one or more optional bonus bets, such as via an input receiving device of a gaming table.
Ronald Anthony LaDuca
Filed: 30 Aug 19
Utility
Servicing and Mounting Features for Gaming Machine Display Screens and Toppers
4 Feb 21
Various gaming machine design features and functionalities are described herein relating to gaming machine display screens, access doors and toppers.
Ryan Patrick Rye, Joel George Friedrick, Mark Robert Brandau
Filed: 16 Aug 19
Utility
Wheel Bonus System for Games
16 Dec 20
A bonus providing element distinct from an underlying game enables bonus awards to players at two or more player positions of the underlying game based upon receipt of a predetermined triggering outcome in the underlying game by the bonus providing element providing an indication of at least three individual random indicators, such as: a) a first random indicator configured to provide an identification of a first award to be awarded to qualifying players of the players of the underlying game; b) a second random indicator configured to provide an identification of a single one of the two or more player positions; and c) a third random indicator configured to provide an identification of a second award to be awarded to the player at the single one of the two or more player positions indicated by the second random indictor.
Jamie Abrahamson
Filed: 26 Aug 20
Utility
Reset of Prize Amounts to Semi-random Values
25 Nov 20
When awarding of a locally-incremented prize or a jackpot prize takes place in a chance-based gaming system, first there may be joy for the player who won but then there is a sense of lost opportunity for remaining other players as they come to realize at that moment that they have lost the opportunity to win that same prize and instead they must start all over in re-building a comparable prize amount.
Alexander Christoph Albert Bitterlin
Filed: 22 May 19
Utility
Component Mounting Configurations for a Gaming Machine Cabinet
4 Nov 20
A gaming machine is provided with easily installable and serviceable components.
Mark Robert Brandau, Brian Edward Tovar
Filed: 21 Jul 20
Utility
Upright Gaming Machine Lower and Cash Doors
28 Oct 20
An upright gaming machine includes a game determination component that facilitates a wager-based game result, input/output devices coupled to the game determination component, a gaming machine cabinet housing various gaming machine components, and lower and cash access doors located about the gaming machine cabinet.
James Ely Tillery, Kevin Berwick Green
Filed: 9 Jul 20
Utility
Method and Device for Implementing Wagering Games Requiring Player Input
14 Oct 20
A gaming table includes input sensors which are configured to receive multiple inputs from a player.
Zbigniew Czyzewski, Michael Skvorzov
Filed: 25 Jun 20
Utility
Technician Input-free Reconfiguration of Secured Gaming System
16 Sep 20
A progressive pool controller within a gaming environment can have programmable contents thereof retrieved or changed without need for user interaction with the controller other than inserting a dynamically-linkable and reprogrammable storage device (e.g., a USB flash drive) into an I/O receptacle of the controller.
Anil Kumar Narra, Jasonlee Kissee Hohman, Scott Andrew Melnick
Filed: 14 Mar 19
Utility
Addition of Auto-configured Progressive Settings to Play Station of Secured Gaming System
16 Sep 20
Anil Kumar Narra, Leah Pinnow, Kenny Mah, Cameron Karlsson
Filed: 11 Mar 19
Utility
Service Lighting Continuation for Gaming Cabinets
29 Jul 20
A gaming machine is provided having a cabinet with one or more technician accessible and normally locked compartments that include respective compartment service lights.
Sean Richard Culp, Emery Hobart Redenius, Eric Laurence Abbott
Filed: 23 Jan 19
Utility
Push-buttons for Gaming Machines
22 Apr 20
Push-button switches and components thereof, including push-button switch button covers, as well as methods of making the same and gaming machines having such push-button switches, are provided.
Rachel Calhoun Lewis, Mark Robert Brandau, Karl Frederick Zedell, JR., Sigmund Hyunjai Lee, Ian Robert Scott, James Ely Tillery
Filed: 17 Dec 19
Utility
Semi-transparent Sidewall Displays for Gaming Cabinets Including Frontal Video Driven Color Control
8 Apr 20
A gaming machine is provided having a cabinet with a high definition frontal mechanism for presenting gaming action of that machine and with at least one of left, right, front and rear cabinet sidewall displays (CSDs) for presenting imagery that can enhance the optical experience of patrons in the vicinity of the gaming machine.
Gerald Francis Wasinger
Filed: 4 Oct 18
Utility
Button Panel Assembly and Security System for a Gaming Device
18 Mar 20
Various aspects described or referenced herein are directed to different methods and systems for facilitating secure access to various components of electronic wager-based gaming devices such as video slot machines, video poker machines, and other types of wager-based gaming machines.
James Ely Tillery, Adam Daniel Ambrecht, Kevin Berwick Green
Filed: 18 Sep 18