US Patent Issued to AGS on Feb. 3 for "Basket for use with gaming cabinet, reel assembly with basket, and reel mounting assembly with basket" (Georgia, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,027, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to AGS LLC (Las Vegas).

"Basket for use with gaming cabinet, reel assembly with basket, and reel mounting assembly with basket" was invented by Matthew T. Rodgers (Cumming, Ga.), Richard A. Bragg (Las Vegas), Edwin Sauceda (Las Vegas) and Seng Chan (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming machine cabinet for a mechanical reel based gaming machine is provided. A plurality of reel devices, each including a mechanical reel and a basket, provides fast and easy installation of the mechanical reels in the gaming machine cabinet. The reel devices are mounted to a self-adjusting sled. The gaming m...