US Patent Issued to IGT on Oct. 6 for "Payline specific symbol replacement" (Nevada, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,610, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Payline specific symbol replacement" was invented by Chris Peterson (Reno, Nev.), Yu Chong (Reno, Nev.), Nick Hillstrom (Otis Orchards, Wash.) and Nathan Ajhar (Sparks, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gaming systems and methods that provide randomly triggered payline specific symbol replacement features for plays of a slot game, wherein when the system or method randomly determines to provide the payline specific symbol replacement for that payline for a play of the slot game, the system or method can replace a non-winning symbol displayed along that payline adjacent to a wi...