G07F 17/3244
Payment aspects of a gaming system
Official title: {Payment aspects of a gaming system, e.g. payment schemes, setting payout ratio, bonus or consolation prizes}
G07F17/3244 (Payment aspects of a gaming system) appears on 9,912 US grants and 13,815 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for processing user profile data structures using language model output6 Oct 2026US 12,755,330 B2DK Crown Holdings Inc.
- Gaming cashless open banking web integration6 Oct 2026US 12,755,606 B2LNW Gaming, Inc.
- Slot game tokenization6 Oct 2026US 12,755,607 B2Igt
- Gaming system and method with a targeted persistent element feature6 Oct 2026US 12,755,609 B2LNW Gaming, Inc.
- Payline specific symbol replacement6 Oct 2026US 12,755,610 B2Igt
- Royal 13 Casino Table Game8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311545 A1
- Gaming table system and system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311546 A1
- Systems and methods for use of cryptocurrencies in a casino gaming system8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311547 A1LNW Gaming, Inc.
- Gaming establishment fund coalescence8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311555 A1Igt
- Gaming establishment fund transfers based on user activities8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311556 A1Igt
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method for operating networked gaming devices1,948US 5,655,961 AAcres Gaming Incorporated · 1997
- Prize redemption system for games1,665US 5,816,918 ARLT Acquistion, Inc. · 1998
- Tissue acquisition arrangements and methods for surgical stapling devices1,498US 8,783,543 B2Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. · 2014
- Method of playing game and gaming games with an additional payout indicator1,482US 5,848,932 AAnchor Gaming · 1998
- Method and system for adapting gaming devices to playing preferences1,446US 6,110,041 AWalker Digital, LLC · 2000