ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,063, issued on May 13, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).

"Activity monitoring in an electronic gaming environment" was invented by Andrew Wyllie (North Ryde, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming activity monitoring system that includes a plurality of gaming devices and at least one server computer comprising one or more processors, a memory, and an interface. The memory stores instructions which when executed cause the one or more processors to receive user activity data corresponding to gaming related activity at one or more gaming venues and including identification dat...