US Patent Issued to IGT on Dec. 30 for "Creating license dongles in the field" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,353, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Creating license dongles in the field" was invented by Dwayne Nelson (Las Vegas) and Derek J. Plowman (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic gaming machine ("EGM") includes a processor circuit, a port coupled to the processor circuit, and a memory coupled to the processor circuit. The port is configured to communicatively couple to a license dongle. The license dongle is configured to store a license associated with a game. The license is usable to allow the game to be played on the EGM. The memory includes machine-readable instructions that, when executed by...