US Patent Issued to Aristocrat Technologies Australia on Oct. 20 for "Systems and methods for electronic gaming in which an active area alternates between sets of reels" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,456, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).

"Systems and methods for electronic gaming in which an active area alternates between sets of reels" was invented by David Marsh (Charlottesville, Va.) and Karl Roelofs (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic gaming machine includes a game controller configured to execute instructions stored in a tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium, which, when executed by the game controller, cause the game controller to at least: (i) simulate spinning and stopping a first plurality of reels to...