ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,269, issued on July 1, was assigned to Everi Payments Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Method and system for centralized casino patron and activity tracking, analysis and reporting" was invented by Adam Fong (Las Vegas), Kathleen Forbes (Las Vegas), Allison Moffatt (Las Vegas), Marcie Arai (Las Vegas) and Greg Farina (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for consolidating data from various casino systems to a central system, automatically performing due diligence on patron profiles using internal and external data, automatically identifying unusual patron profiles and transactions, and generating, submitting, an...