US Patent Issued to Aristocrat Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Multi-player gaming system with synchronization periods and associated synchronization methods" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,156, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Multi-player gaming system with synchronization periods and associated synchronization methods" was invented by Daniel Marks (Decatur, Ga.), Hua Xu (Marietta, Ga.) and Dinesh Dua (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-player games in which players cooperate and/or compete with one another over the course of several rounds of the game are disclosed. A controller may synchronize gaming devices used by the players during the multi-player games. The controller may send sync commands to the gaming devices. In response to the sync commands, the ...