US Patent Issued to Aristocrat Technologies Australia on Sept. 1 for "Gaming operations and gaming device having multiple meters for storing and tracking persistent awards" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,486, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).

"Gaming operations and gaming device having multiple meters for storing and tracking persistent awards" was invented by Danny Winata (Oatlands, Australia), Karen Kendall (Toongabbie, Australia) and Antoon Visser (Kensington, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming device includes a memory, and processor that when executed by the processor to cause the processor to cause a selection of symbols to display in a plurality of columns of symbol positions, where the selection for each column is performed from a corresponding...