ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,740, issued on July 22, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).
"Systems and methods for ticket and cashless merchant discount offers" was invented by Samantha Ascheri-Phillips (Reno, Nev.), Patrick Danielson (Las Vegas) and Dwayne Nelson (Las Vegas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems for providing ticket and cashless discount offers. As system includes a processor circuit that receives, from a player, a request for a cashout that corresponds to a cash balance held by the player at the end of a gaming session. A cashout bonus status that corresponds to the player and to the gaming session is determined. A bonus portion that ...