ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,138, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to INTERACTIVE GAMES LLC (New York).

"Gambling service with adaptive location checking frequency" was invented by Lee Amaitis (Las Vegas), Paul Williams (New York), Sunny Tara (Henderson, Nev.) and Matthew Morrissette (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for adaptively checking the location of a smart phone that provides a user access to a gambling service are described. For example, a user is provided access to the gambling service via a smart phone, which uses a program wrapper to provide a gambling app. The distance of the smart phone from a border of a U.S. state where gambling i...