ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,635, issued on May 6, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).

"Systems and methods for tokenization of digital assets associated with electronic gaming" was invented by Altay Nuhoglu (Eastwood, Australia), Stephen Shaffer Jr. (Las Vegas) and Frank Rodriguez (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blockchain system for supporting electronic gaming on a plurality of electronic gaming devices a primary blockchain and a system server participating in the primary blockchain. The primary blockchain defines a partially fungible tokens configured to be used for game play for a first gaming oper...