ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. D1,129,558, issued on June 9, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Gaming machine" was invented by Stephen Shaffer Jr. (Las Vegas), Frank Rodriguez (Las Vegas), Bruce Urban (Las Vegas), Alfred Thomas (Ventura, Calif.), Rajendrasinh Jadeja (Las Vegas), Matthew McKay (Henderson, Nev.), Joseph Kaminkow (Las Vegas), Marenz Ganadillo (Las Vegas), Ariel Turgel (San Francisco), Daniel Harden (Palo Alto, Calif.), Elliott Ortiz (San Francisco) and Hirotomi Teranishi (San Jose, Calif.).

The patent was filed on Nov. 12, 2025, under Application No. D/032,540.

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