ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,441, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).
"Symbols triggering multiple symbol evaluations" was invented by Yu Chong (Reno, Nev.), Nick Hillstrom (Reno, Nev.), Nathan Ajhar (Sparks, Nev.) and Chris Peterson (Reno, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gaming systems and methods that include one or more symbols that trigger multiple symbol evaluations for a play of a game. Each of the trigger symbols can cause the gaming system and method to provide multiple independent symbol evaluations during a play of the game for the same set of randomly generated and displayed symbols."
The patent was filed on Nov. 29, 2022, under A...