US Patent Issued to IGT on May 6 for "Using non-optical short-range 3D-tracking gesture and motion controllers at an electronic gaming machine" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,625, issued on May 6, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Using non-optical short-range 3D-tracking gesture and motion controllers at an electronic gaming machine" was invented by Michael Russ (Styria, Austria), Stephan Adamek (Styria, Austria), Elisabeth Kiss (Unterpremstatten, Austria), Gerhard Pichler (Graz, Austria), Bruno Rittner (Hausmannstaetten, Austria) and Thomas Trenkler (Thal bei Graz Styria, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems and methods are provided. A gaming device includes a non-optical gesture input device to detect gesture inputs performed by a user, a processor circuit and a memory coupled to the...