US Patent Issued to IGT on June 3 for "Method and system for player group sharing and redistributing gaming awards" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,255, issued on June 3, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Method and system for player group sharing and redistributing gaming awards" was invented by Fei Yi (Beijing) and Wei Gong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic gaming system is capable of forming a multi-player group to play a game; receiving, from a first gaming device, first game play information for a first game played by a first player member of the multi-player group on the first gaming device; determining that the first game play information comprises a first winning outcome corresponding to a first winning outcome; in response, allocating the first winnin...