US Patent Issued to INTERACTIVE GAMES on Sept. 23 for "Smart phone with gambling application that checks for unauthorized applications and processes" (Nevada, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,181, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to INTERACTIVE GAMES LLC (New York).

"Smart phone with gambling application that checks for unauthorized applications and processes" 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 verifying that a smart phone is authorized to use a gambling application are described. For example, a wrapper installed on the phone detects a request to initialize the application, a request to log into the application, or a request to place a wager through a gambling service of the applic...