ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,749, issued on July 28, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).

"Systems and methods for accumulation and application of electronic gaming enhancements" was invented by Lauren Paterson (Kellyville, Australia), Antoon Visser (Coogee, Australia), Colin Fong (Penshurst, Australia) and Glenn Wiryadi (St Ives, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic gaming system including a memory and a processor is described. The processor is configured to cause a number of multiplier symbols to be accumulated during a first electronic game and for each of the number of multiplier symbols, provi...