US Patent Issued to Aristocrat Technologies on July 28 for "Gaming device with independent landing award enhancement symbols" (Nevada, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,748, issued on July 28, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Gaming device with independent landing award enhancement symbols" was invented by Kevin Walsh (Reno, Nev.) and David Marsh (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions thereon wherein the instructions when executed by the processor, cause the processor to cause display of a matrix including a plurality of symbol positions and populate a first subset of the symbol positions with a first plurality of symbols for a first game instance outcome. The first game instance outcome in...