ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,470, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Systems and methods for providing an electronic card game with increasing free games multipliers" was invented by John Daley (Las Vegas) and Christopher Brune (Carson City, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic gaming system includes a memory, a display device, and a processor configured to execute instructions stored in the memory, which when executed, cause the processor to: generate a base game that includes display of a hand of cards; determine that the hand of cards includes a winning card combination that triggers a free games feature...