ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,901, issued on June 17, was assigned to Automated Cashless Systems Inc. (Reno, Nev.).

"Enabling financial transactions for electronic gaming machines" was invented by Stephen L. Warner (Zephyr Cove, Nev.), Michael Sackrison (Reno, Nev.), Shawn G. Quick (Reno, Nev.) and Noah Vrudny (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming system and method for enabling financial transactions in a gaming environment are described. The gaming system includes an electronic funds transfer (EFT) terminal, a gateway and a financial network. The gateway retrieves transaction information related to a fund transfer request. The gateway can then inde...