ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,263, issued on May 27, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).

"Visualization system for creating a mixed reality gaming environment" was invented by Upinder Dhaliwal (Sydney) and Thomas Elson (North Ryde, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtualization system is that comprises a display configured to display a representation of a real-world gaming area with physical objects. A user selects and adds one or more virtual electronic gaming machines (EGMs) to the gaming area representation to generate a mixed reality gaming area. Each virtual EGM added to the mixed reality gaming area...