ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,449, issued on April 29, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).
"Escape room gaming systems and methods" was invented by David Froy Jr. (Lakeville-Westmorland, Canada) and Stefan Keilwert (St. Josef, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to an escape room game that includes a plurality of puzzles corresponding to different solutions to be solved by a player in a specific order and within a predetermined period of time and in a room with defined boundaries for successful completion of the escape room game. The players can wager on a predicted level of performance of the player in the escape room game...