US Patent Issued to IGT on Dec. 2 for "Independently randomly and/or automatically generated different features associated with activators" (British, Austrian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,658, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Independently randomly and/or automatically generated different features associated with activators" was invented by Michael DeBrabander (Reno, Nev.), Stephen Calvert (Berkhamsted, Great Britain), Robin Hare (Reno, Nev.) and Dieter Goriup (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gaming systems and methods configured to display, for one more of activations of the symbol displays for a play of a game, an automatic activation zone associated with the symbol displays. For the play of the game: (a) if an activator is displayed on one of the symbols displays at the automatic acti...