ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,745, issued on March 18, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Secondary market award predictions" 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 offer a secondary market award based on one or more predictions made in association with a primary market award."

The patent was filed on Aug. 4, 2021, under Application No. 17/393,983.

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