ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,337, issued on May 27, was assigned to Everi Payments Inc. (Las Vegas).
"Systems for enhancing funding of gaming" was invented by Kirk Edward Sanford (Henderson, Nev.), Thomas Michael Sears (Henderson, Nev.) and Robert Vincent Connelly Jr. (Henderson, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are provided for facilitating the funding of gaming. Relative to a gaming table, a player may provide a commercial bank card to access funds via a table client. A request for funds from an account associated with the bank card is transmitted to a banking network. Upon approval, a monetary value voucher is generated, such as by a ...