ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,866, issued on March 17, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).
"Slot machine implementing a mirror operation" was invented by Chris Peterson (Reno, Nev.), Nick Hillstrom (Reno, Nev.) and Nathan Ajhar (Sparks, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to computational devices and, in particular, toward a computational device, system, and method of operating a computational device. The method may include determining that a mirror symbol has landed within a predetermined symbol area and then implementing a bonus spin and mirror operation in response thereto."
The patent was filed on Dec. 21, 2022, under A...