ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,343, issued on May 27, was assigned to LNW Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).
"Gaming system" was invented by Peter Causley (Vaucluse, Australia) and David Little (Woollahra, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming system for enabling the simultaneous play of social virtual currency, wager-based gaming and free, play-for-fun gaming is described. The gaming system is configured to deliver a fun game to a client in conjunction with a virtual currency gaming event and to initiate play of a fun game upon a predesignated triggering event of the virtual currency game. The fun game is played by a plurality of players and fun game controller...