ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,368, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).
"Electronic gaming device having expanding reel" was invented by Daniel Mirjavadi (Las Vegas), Allon Englman (Las Vegas) and Christmas Uberuaga (Reno, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming device that incorporates an expanding mechanic on one reel of a slot-type game. The expanding reel is one example of an enhanced payout reel. Generally, although not necessarily, the expanding wild reel is a middle reel that is positioned between non-expanding slot reels. Typically, an equal number of non-expanding reels are positioned on either side of the e...