ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,208, issued on March 11, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).
"Electronic gaming machine with wireless communication capabilities" was invented by Fayez Idris (Dieppe, Canada), Stefan Keilwert (St. Josef, Austria), Sven Aurich (Schwanberg, Austria), David Froy Jr. (Lakeville-Westmorland, Canada), Michael Russ (Styria, Austria), David Small (Moncton, Canada) and Yue Hang Tang (Riverview, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to gaming machines, systems, and methods. As an example, a method is disclosed that includes enabling a user to interact with a game of chance via a user interface device of t...