US Patent Issued to IGT on March 3 for "Symbol replacement based on symbol sub-value comparisons" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,303, issued on March 3, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Symbol replacement based on symbol sub-value comparisons" was invented by Nick Hillstrom (Reno, Nev.), Nathan Ajhar (Sparks, Nev.), Lauren Hillstrom (Reno, Nev.) and Yu Chong (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gaming systems and methods that provide a symbol replacement based on sub-value comparisons feature for a play of a game. In various embodiments, for the play of the game, for each of a plurality of symbol display elements, the gaming system sequentially causes the display of a current symbol on that symbol display element, and determines whether to change one or...