ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,155, issued on April 22, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Systems and methods for supporting one or more external applications at a gaming device" was invented by Rajendrasinh Jadeja (Las Vegas), Xiaoqiang Gong (Henderson, Nev.) and Bruce Urban (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic gaming device is described. The electronic gaming device includes a button deck including a display device, at least one memory with instructions stored thereon, and at least one processor in communication with the display device and the at least one memory. The instructions, when executed by the at least one proc...