ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,191, issued on May 19, was assigned to Konami Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).
"Gaming machine and control method for operating gaming machines to display computer-animated reel games" was invented by John Pariseau (Las Vegas) and Yuji Ono (Las Vegas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming machine is described herein. The gaming machine includes a game control unit programmed to display computer-generated graphics including a plurality of virtual reels. The game control unit displays a game screen including a grid having a plurality of cells arranged in a plurality of rows and columns, and displays the plurality of virtual reels in the grid. ...