ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,756, issued on May 6, was assigned to CFPH LLC (New York).

"User registration" was invented by Phillip L. Flaherty (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agent that may assist a service provider of gaming services with registering/signing up users, with accepting funds/money from a user and depositing these funds in a gaming account of the user for the user to play games with, and/or with receiving requests from a user to withdrawal funds from the user's account and paying the user the withdrawn funds. The agent may also assist a user in obtaining a report of an account of the user, the account being associated with a service p...