US Patent Issued to Aristocrat Technologies on April 7 for "Gaming device with persistence cycling" (Illinois, Hawaii, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,319, issued on April 7, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Gaming device with persistence cycling" was invented by Zachary Cohen (Chicago), Nathan Warms (Austin, Texas), Hanna Sanborn (Georgetown, Texas), Jennifer Mizzi (Ewa Beach, Hawaii), Erick Ching (Cedar Park, Texas) and Rogelio Decasa Jr. (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming system includes a processor and a memory storing a plurality of stage game rule sets. Each rule set of the stage game rule sets corresponding with a stage of a game. The processor is programmed to cause display of columns each including symbol positions based on a f...