ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,762, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Assignment of live dealers in a virtual reality environment" was invented by Tanner Badalato (Henderson, Nev.), Dwayne Nelson (Las Vegas) and Kevin Higgins (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system 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 processor circuit to initiate a virtual play session of a virtual table game for a player of the virtual table game, the virtual table game comprising a dealer avatar. The instructions further ...