ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,976, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).
"Electronic gaming system and method of providing progressive jackpot play" was invented by Raheem Farooq (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming system is provided, including a jackpot server and a gaming server. The jackpot server accumulates respective contributions from gaming client devices into a progressive jackpot. The gaming server presents wagering games to a player on a gaming client device. The wagering games include a first wagering game having a progressive jackpot component, and a second wagering game not...