ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,701, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).
"Cryptocurrency mining progressive pools" was invented by Dwayne Nelson (Las Vegas) and Kevin Higgins (Reno, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming system and method selects a subset of gaming devices to operate in a digital ledger validation mode to validate a set of data records defining a digital ledger, allocates, to each gaming device, a respective work unit, receives, at an electronic address associated with the gaming server, an electronic record defining a reward, tracks play activity at each of the plurality of gaming devices, and, based on the tracked play activ...