ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,390, issued on March 4, was assigned to AdrenalineIP (Washington).
"Pool users with progressive jackpot" was invented by Casey Alexander Huke (Washington), John Cronin (Jericho, Vt.), Joseph W. Beyers (Saratoga, Calif.) and Michael D'Andrea (Burlington, Vt.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method of offering a pooled progressive jackpot in a play-by-play wagering network in which groups of users have a portion of their losses assigned to a progressive jackpot. One or more plays in a live sporting event have the progressive jackpot assigned to one or more wagers. When a user wins the wager that the prog...