US Patent Issued to IGT on July 29 for "Front money as gaming establishment account overdraft protection" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,835, issued on July 29, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Front money as gaming establishment account overdraft protection" was invented by Jeffery Shepherd (Reno, Nev.) and Kevin Higgins (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that utilize funds accessed from a gaming establishment front money handling system to provide an overdraft protection feature to one or more gaming establishment accounts."

The patent was filed on July 1, 2022, under Application No. 17/856,264.

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