ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,989, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Sightline Payments LLC (Las Vegas).
"Systems and methods for administration of non-wagering account associated with gaming environment" was invented by Kirk E. Sanford (Las Vegas), Thomas M. Sears (Henderson, Nev.) and Omer Sattar (Las Vegas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for associating a player identifier with a stored value account. The stored value account can hold funds that are accessible through the player's use of a stored value payment vehicle. The stored value payment vehicle can be a reloadable stored value payment vehicle or a non-reloadable store...