ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,835, issued on April 15, was assigned to Acres Technology (Las Vegas).

"Gaming device having advance game information analyzer" was invented by John F. Acres (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This concept is directed to methods of operating a gaming device to analyze game information that is part of a gaming event having a player interaction in advance of the player interaction to make a determination about the game play. These methods may be used for a variety of gaming devices such as slot machines, video keno devices, video poker machines, electronic table games, internet gaming terminals, etc. In each type of gaming device...