ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,710, issued on March 25, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).
"System and method for multilevel autonomous tournaments" was invented by Daniel Marks (Decatur, Ga.) and Hua Xu (Marietta, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for providing multilevel autonomous tournaments for wagering game are provided. In some implementations, players may earn entry into such a tournament by meeting one or more criteria and then be associated with a tournament entry for that tournament. Each tournament entry may be associated with a set of tournament entries and, after a requisite number of tournament entries...