ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,273, issued on July 1, was assigned to AdrenalineIP (Washington).

"Method of rewarding non-dangerous behavior" was invented by Casey Alexander Huke (Washington), John Cronin (Jericho, Vt.), Joseph W. Beyers (Saratoga, Calif.), Michael D'Andrea (Burlington, Vt.) and Michael Baker (Georgie, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improving the profitability of an in-play betting system by identifying high frequency and high wager amount users and promoting an increase in wager amount or frequency by offering incentives to increase a user's wager amount, if identified to be a high frequency bettor or wager frequency, if identified to be a hig...