ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,568, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to AGS LLC (Las Vegas).
"Technician input-free reconfiguration of secured gaming system" was invented by Anil Kumar Narra (Alpharetta, Ga.), Jasonlee Kissee Hohman (Sparks, Nev.) and Scott Andrew Melnick (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "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. The controller has a service automatically r...