ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,387, issued on June 2, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).
"Gaming system with splittable symbol positions" was invented by Colin Fong (Penshurst, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming system comprises a display, a player interface, and a game controller having a processor, and a memory storing symbol data, a pay table, and instructions, when executed, cause the processor to receive a selection specifying paylines for evaluation, each payline specifying one symbol position on one column, split a first symbol position into sub-positions, randomly select symbols for display at ...