ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,866, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Casino decentralized management to collect and share player credit data" was invented by Haiyun Zhang (Beijing), Yizhao Zhu (Macau), Jun Robert Li (Beijing) and Xiang Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided. A system includes a communication interface, a processor circuit and a memory coupled to the processor circuit. The memory includes machine readable instructions that, when executed by the processor circuit, cause the processor circuit to receive, from a casino operator, a request for credit data that corresponds to a player that request...