ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,192, issued on May 19, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).
"Systems and methods of electronic gaming" was invented by Ryan Hawkins (Henderson, Nev.), Robert Honeycutt (Henderson, Nev.) and Stephanie Johns (Las Vegas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for electronic gaming are disclosed. In a first aspect, a method of electronic gaming includes selecting a plurality of primary game symbols, displaying the plurality of primary game symbols, initiating, based upon the plurality of primary game symbols, a secondary game, displaying a trigger symbol i...