US Patent Issued to Aristocrat Technologies Australia on June 30 for "Gaming device with jackpot increments for non-triggering prize value symbols" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,766, issued on June 30, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).

"Gaming device with jackpot increments for non-triggering prize value symbols" was invented by Matthew Chan (East Killara, Australia), Blake Davis (Macquarie Park, Australia) and Igor Suslik (St. Ives, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming device comprises a display, a processor, and a memory storing (a) a jackpot prize meter, (b) a current award value for awarding the jackpot prize, (c) reel strip data defining a set of reel strips, each reel of the set of reel strips comprising prize value symbols and non-prize va...