ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,380, issued on March 4, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Integrated active control system for managing gaming devices" was invented by Gareth Stuart Phillips (Manchester, Great Britain), Kent Reisdorph (Henderson, Nev.), Lattamore D. Osburn (Las Vegas), Scott Olive (Brookvale, Australia), Gary Frerking (Henderson, Nev.), Jeffrey S. Topham (Las Vegas), Michael Dugan (Colorado Springs, Colo.), John Denlay (Las Vegas) and Christine Judith Denlay (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated active control system includes gaming devices, a server, and a network connecting the server and gaming devices....