ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,126, issued on March 31, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).

"Systems and methods of electronic gaming including gesture-based player constructed symbol combinations" was invented by Jana Rose Cash-Silva (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an electronic gaming machine includes a game controller that executes instructions that cause the game controller to: (i) display a plurality of reels to form a matrix of symbol positions; (ii) simulate spinning the plurality of reels; (iii) display a plurality of player-populated symbol positions within the matrix; (iv) display...