US Patent Issued to IGT on Sept. 8 for "Electronic gaming machine having transmissive reels with reel strips that provide space symbols for image displays" (Nevada Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,561, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Electronic gaming machine having transmissive reels with reel strips that provide space symbols for image displays" was invented by Scott Jones (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming system including a housing and a reel assembly including rotatable reel having a reel strip including a space symbol having an image space area and a graphic area, and a transmissive display device defining a see-through window aligned with the rotatable reel and configured to display an image in the window aligned with the image space area of the space symbol of the reel strip."

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