US Patent Issued to LNW Gaming on Oct. 7 for "Gaming systems and methods for adaptable player area monitoring" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,609, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to LNW Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Gaming systems and methods for adaptable player area monitoring" was invented by Scott Hilbert (Sparks, Nev.), Martin Lyons (Henderson, Nev.) and Rolland Steil (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming machine includes at least one image sensor for capturing an image including a player area associated with the gaming machine and logic circuitry in communication with the image sensor. The logic circuitry establishes a facial image mask defining an area of interest within the player area, receives the captured image from the image sensor, applies the facial im...