US Patent Issued to Everi Payments on June 17 for "Gaming system and gaming machines utilizing tickets having a feature trigger" (Nevada, Colorado, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,905, issued on June 17, was assigned to Everi Payments Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Gaming system and gaming machines utilizing tickets having a feature trigger" was invented by Timothy Richards (Las Vegas), Scott Howard Betts (Parker, Colo.) and Raymond Dumbeck (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A casino gaming system includes gaming machines which are configured to accept and read tickets. The ticket may comprise cash-value tickets or non-cash value/promotional tickets. The tickets may also include secondary feature triggering indicia. The player may present the cash-value ticket having a feature triggering indicia or a non-cash v...