ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,440, issued on July 8, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).
"Automated progressive pool management for gaming" was invented by Dwayne Nelson (Las Vegas), Kevin Higgins (Reno, Nev.) and Christopher Levin (Reno, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system configured to manage progressive pools can include a processor circuit and a memory coupled to the processor circuit. The memory includes machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor circuit, cause the system to perform operations. The operations include determining to cease operation of a first progressive game on a first electronic gaming machines ("EGM"). The firs...