ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,782, issued on July 15, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Augmented reality integration in electronic gaming machines" was invented by Dwayne Nelson (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic gaming machine according to some embodiments includes a processing circuit, a display screen coupled to the processing circuit, and a transceiver coupled to the processing circuit and providing wireless communications with an augmented reality (AR) display device that is separate from the electronic gaming machine. The processing circuit displays a game element in a first screen area of the display screen, and transmits, via the tra...