ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,721, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).
"Modifying symbols based on symbol display positions" was invented by Nathan Ajhar (Sparks, Nev.), Nick Hillstrom (Reno, Nev.) and Chris Peterson (Reno, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that employ one or more triggering events that occur to select a symbol display position and modify one or more instances of a symbol displayed in association with that selected symbol display position into a designated symbol."
The patent was filed on May 18, 2022, under Application No. 17/747,662.
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