US Patent Issued to IGT on March 25 for "Gaming system and method for providing awards based on a playing card determined via multiple independent random determinations" (Texas, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,713, issued on March 25, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Gaming system and method for providing awards based on a playing card determined via multiple independent random determinations" was invented by Daniel Helzer (Reno, Nev.) and Bradford Brown (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gaming systems that provide an award in association with a play of a card game wherein a playing card is determined via a first determination of a suit of that playing card and a separate second determination of a rank of that playing card."

The patent was filed on Sept. 19, 2023, under Application No. 18/370,260.

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