US Patent Issued to Aristocrat Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Bartop gaming device including a lift assembly for a button deck" (Nevada, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,054, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Bartop gaming device including a lift assembly for a button deck" was invented by Kiran Dundaraddi (Las Vegas), Timothy Barbour (Nolensville, Tenn.) and Victor McClearen (Lewisburg, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bartop gaming device includes a housing base; a button deck assembly having one or more buttons for receiving player inputs during game play on the gaming device; and a lift assembly for raising or lowering the button deck assembly relative to the housing to service the button deck or an area of the gaming device covered by the butto...