ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,865, issued on March 17, was assigned to Games Global Operations Ltd. (Douglas, Isle of Man).

"System and method for reel-based events with seed-based feature" was invented by Brian Bitto (Escondido, Calif.), Hylton Rottcher (Matthews, N.C.) and Dylan Heyes (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and storage media for reel-based events with seed-based feature are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: determine occurrence of a particular outcome for a reel-based event; determine a specific seed from among a set of seeds corresponding to the particular outcome and a quantity of times to use a deterministic proc...