ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,550, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to CFPH LLC (New York).
"Systems and methods for managing money from multiple players" was invented by Craig Lipka (Cresskill, N.J.) and Kenneth L. Miller (Ankeny, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments that may generally relate to one or more games at one or more venues. Gaming at a venue may qualify a player for a bonus game. A pool from which awards are paid for winning the bonus game may be funded through gaming activity that is not at the one or more venues."
The patent was filed on Sept. 27, 2019, under Application No. 16/585,204.
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