ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,125, issued on March 31, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Partial reset of dynamic awards" was invented by Kevin Remus (Las Vegas) and Jennifer Hatok (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gaming systems and methods that determine a partial dynamic award based on the accumulation of one or more game elements and reset a dynamic award based on the determined partial dynamic award."

The patent was filed on Sept. 12, 2022, under Application No. 17/942,870.

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