US Patent Issued to IGT on Jan. 28 for "System and method with alternative awards for winning sporting event wagers" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,351, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"System and method with alternative awards for winning sporting event wagers" was invented by Dwayne R. Nelson (Las Vegas) and Vincent S. Lai (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods which utilize zero, one or more random determinations in association with a determination of an award of a placed sporting event wager."

The patent was filed on Aug. 2, 2021, under Application No. 17/391,818.

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