US Patent Issued to IGT on June 23 for "Secondary game displayed in a primary manner and associated with a primary game displayed in a secondary manner" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,856, issued on June 23, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Secondary game displayed in a primary manner and associated with a primary game displayed in a secondary manner" was invented by Sean O'Donnell (Reno, Nev.), Janner Redera (Sparks, Nev.) and Aaron P. Taylor (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gaming systems and methods that provide a secondary game displayed in a primary manner and associated with a primary game displayed in a secondary manner. In various embodiments, the play of the secondary game is at least partially based on and indirectly dependent on the wager on the play of the primary game. In various embodiment...