US Patent Issued to LNW Gaming on June 3 for "Mechanical wheel with rotatable mechanical bezel" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,240, issued on June 3, was assigned to LNW Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Mechanical wheel with rotatable mechanical bezel" was invented by Vernon Bernard (Las Vegas), Karl Wudtke (Henderson, Nev.) and Benjamin E. Isaac (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are embodiments of an apparatus having a rotatable wheel, a mechanical annular rotatable bezel overlaying at least a portion of the wheel, and an electronic controller, coupled to the bezel. The bezel is rotatable via manual player input to the bezel. The electronic controller determines a rotational motion of the bezel in response to the manual player input to the bezel. ...