US Patent Issued to IGT on March 3 for "Independently randomly determined symbol pattern set associated with symbol display positions" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,302, issued on March 3, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Independently randomly determined symbol pattern set associated with symbol display positions" was invented by Nick Hillstrom (Reno, Nev.), Yu Chong (Reno, Nev.), Lauren Hillstrom (Reno, Nev.) and Nathan Ajhar (Sparks, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gaming systems and methods that independently randomly determine and display one or more symbol pattern sets associated with symbol display positions for multiple plays of a game. The gaming system displays each determined symbol pattern set adjacent to the symbol display positions. At various points during the multiple plays ...