ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,746, issued on March 18, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).
"Funding a progressive with marketing dollars" was invented by Jeffery Shepherd (Reno, Nev.) and Kevin Higgins (Reno, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic gaming machine ("EGM") includes 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 EGM to perform operations. The operations include determining a user has earned a comp. The operations further include increasing a progressive award based on the comp. The operations further include outputtin...