ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,566, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Systems and methods for simulating player behavior using one or more bots during a wagering game" was invented by Rogelio Decasa Jr. (Renton, Wash.) and Derek Hall (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic gaming machine includes a display device and a processor configured to execute instructions stored in a memory, which when executed, cause the processor to at least initiate a multiplayer game, select at least one bot of a plurality of bots from a bot selection table associated with each bot of the plurality of bots, each bot simu...