ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,313, issued on March 3, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).
"Symbol streak sequence and related enhancement feature" was invented by Yu Chong (Reno, Nev.), Nathan Ajhar (Sparks, Nev.), Nick Hillstrom (Reno, Nev.) and Chris Peterson (Reno, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gaming systems and methods providing a symbol streak sequence for consecutive plays of a game that can result in an enhancement feature. Each consecutive play of the game can either start a symbol streak sequence, end a symbol streak sequence, or continue a symbol streak sequence. The enhancement feature can be any one or more of a plurality of different enhancement ...