ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,991, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).
"Node-based game evaluation and game play" was invented by Sean O'Donnell (Reno, Nev.), Aaron P. Taylor (Reno, Nev.), Janner Redera (Sparks, Nev.) and Dwayne Nelson (Las Vegas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to operating an electronic game according to a graph presentation representing a current state and possible future states for the game. Various embodiments described herein provide the player with a graph representing possible choices during game play with each choice influencing a future state and flow of the game. Embodi...