ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,949, issued on April 15, was assigned to INSPIRED GAMING (UK) Ltd. (Staffordshire, Great Britain).
"Random number generation for stitched video draw game systems" was invented by Simon R. Twigg (Bangor, Great Britain) and Kenneth E. Irwin Jr. (Dawsonville, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device are disclosed for pseudorandomly generating a streamed video presentation of a draw game from a plurality of previously recorded video fragments using a deterministic random number generator. After all wagering is concluded, a deterministic random number generator also determines the outcome of the drawing. The method and device...