ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,161, issued on April 22, was assigned to Video Gaming Technologies Inc. (Franklin, Tenn.).
"Gaming systems with configurable jackpot award strategies" was invented by Daniel William Milligan (Palmyra, Va.), Christopher John Thacker (Earlysville, Va.), Stephen Wade Brooks (Johnston, Iowa) and Jason Todd Sprinkle (Pauline, S.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming machine includes an input device and a processor coupled to the input device. The input device is configured to receive a game play event from a player. The processor is programmed to determine whether a jackpot trigger condition is satisfied based at least in part on the g...