ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,728, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).
"Button sensing methods in gaming environment" was invented by Patrick Danielson (Las Vegas), Samantha Ascheri-Phillips (Reno, Nev.), Dwayne Nelson (Las Vegas) and Vincent S. Lai (Las Vegas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic gaming machine ("EGM") can include a processor circuit and a memory coupled to the processor circuit. The memory can include machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor circuit, cause the EGM to perform operations. The operations can include determining a position of a selector relative to a button while the button is in an ...