ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,645, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to INTERACTIVE GAMES LLC (New York).
"Point and/or money based gaming" was invented by Lee Amaitis (Las Vegas), Paul Williams (Washington) and Nolan Glantz (Burlington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments may include a poker indexing service. For example, a multi-dimensional vector of player performance and/or other data may be determined based on gaming related activity that is input or otherwise captured. Such a vector may be used in various forms to generate a metric or to facilitate wagering and/or other gaming activity. Other methods and apparatus are described."
The patent w...