ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,404, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to INTERACTIVE GAMES LLC (New York).

"Multi-level device verification for mobile gambling applications" was invented by Paul Williams (New York), Matthew Morrissette (Las Vegas) and Stephane Minisini (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for multi-level device verification for mobile gambling applications are described. For example, when an application executing on a smartphone attempts to access a gambling activity of the gambling service, the location of the smartphone is attempted to be determined based on GPS data. If the GPS data is not determinable, the location of the smartph...