ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,873, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).
"Gaming device with a secondary spins feature" was invented by Eric Boese (Decatur, Ga.), Ronald Williams II (Atlanta) and Alex Jagrowski (Dunwoody, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming system including a processor and a memory storing instructions thereon which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: select symbols from reel strips stored in the memory for display in corresponding columns by determining stopping positions for the reel strips; cause display of the selected symbols in the columns on a display of a gaming device; d...