US Patent Issued to Acres Technology on March 18 for "Distributed system for managing and providing services to electronic gaming machines" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,741, issued on March 18, was assigned to Acres Technology (Las Vegas).

"Distributed system for managing and providing services to electronic gaming machines" was invented by John F. Acres (Las Vegas) and Mark Dailey (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention are directed to distributed systems that include networked master and slave circuits that are each connected to a plurality of electronic gaming machines on a casino floor. Each circuit receives digital information from a data port on an electronic gaming machine to which it is connected and also transmits commands, such as TITO commands, to t...