US Patent Issued to Aristocrat Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Tournament gaming for electronic gaming machines and other computing devices" (California, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,411, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Tournament gaming for electronic gaming machines and other computing devices" was invented by Alfred Thomas (Ventura, Calif.), Joseph Masinter II (Las Vegas), Michele Rousseau (Las Vegas), Allon Englman (Las Vegas), Angelo Palmisano (Henderson, Nev.), Christopher Cleveland (Las Vegas) and Larry Pacey (Calabasas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various gaming tournament-related techniques and systems for providing for game-of-chance gaming tournaments are disclosed, including techniques relating to criteria-based award of plays and/or perks for us...