ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,975, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).

"System and method for changing beacon identifiers for secure mobile communications" was invented by Angelo Palmisano (Las Vegas), Eric Taylor (Las Vegas) and Steven Santisi (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a casino management server and an electronic casino device that includes a beacon configured to wirelessly communicate with personal devices of players. The device transmits a request for a custom beacon ID to the casino management server, receives the custom beacon ID from the casino management server in response to the re...