ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,758, issued on July 28, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).

"Systems and methods for providing output amounts based upon numerical symbol presentation" was invented by Karen Kendall (Toongabbie, Australia), Lipi Gupta (Newington, Australia), Eric Lie (Winston Hills, Australia) and Geoffrey Richardson (Baulkham Hills, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic gaming device including a processor and a memory is described. The processor is configured to select a plurality of symbols including a plurality of numerical values and determine that at least one symbol includes at le...