US Patent Issued to IGT on Sept. 23 for "Proximity increased chances of win during special event" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,057, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Proximity increased chances of win during special event" was invented by Nick Hillstrom (Reno, Nev.), Lauren Hillstrom (Reno, Nev.), Nathan Ajhar (Sparks, Nev.) and Chris Peterson (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first electronic gaming machine ("EGM") 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 EGM to perform operations. The operations include determining that an event has been triggered on a second EGM. The second EGM can be ...