ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,070, issued on May 13, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Method and system for customizable side bet placement" was invented by Matteo Carli (Reno, Nev.), Paul Baskerville (Las Vegas) and Donald Humphreys (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic gaming system is capable of providing players with customized subsets of side bets. The system can provide, by the user interface, the player with a player-selectable set of side bets; receive, from the player through the user interface, a selection of a subset of the player-selectable set of side bets for the player to use in a gaming session, with a number of side bets in th...