ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,910, issued on June 17, was assigned to CFPH LLC (New York).

"Tiered gaming" was invented by Lee Amaitis (Las Vegas), Matthew Holt (Las Vegas), Mike Colbert (Las Vegas) and Reed Stephens (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments include a fantasy sports wagering game. A gaming operator may assign real life sporting players into brackets based on their expected performance so that players with similar expected performance are in a same bracket as each other. Participants in a fantasy sports wagering game may be required to select a player from each of a plurality of brackets to form a fantasy sports team for the fanta...