US Patent Issued to IGT on Nov. 11 for "Award modifiers that are player selectable for plays of poker games of a game play sequence" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,365, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Award modifiers that are player selectable for plays of poker games of a game play sequence" was invented by Ernest W. Moody (Las Vegas) and Yoohwan Hwang (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gaming systems and methods of operating such gaming systems that provide different award modifiers that are player selectable for a plurality of potential plays of a game of a game play sequence. Unless the game play sequence is ended, for each of the plays of the game in the game play sequence, the player can select the available award modifier for that game play; however, after one...