Incredible Technologies Assigned Patent

Incredible Technologies, Inc., Vernon Hills, IL, has been assigned a patent (9,812,208) developed by Jaskowiak, Steven John, Sleepy Hollow, IL, and Siegrist, Jeffrey W., West Chicago, IL, for a “system and method for employing secure non-volatile storage devices in gaming machines.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A write-protection system and method for use with a gaming machine. The system having a non-volatile data storage device, an interface device and an electrically conductive connector. The storage device having electronic data storage and a write-protection controller providing a write-protected state and a write-permitting state, the electronic data storage being blocked from receiving electronic write commands in the write-protected state and being able to receive write commands in the write-permitting state. The interface device electrically connecting the data storage device to a power supply and control circuitry of the gaming machine. The interface device connected to the electronic data storage through the controller and the connector.”

The patent application was filed on July 1, 2014 (14/321,137)