ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,768, issued on June 30, was assigned to LNW Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Gaming system and method with multi-play nudge feature" was invented by George Bouvier (Henderson, Nev.), Gregory Carr (Las Vegas) and Kimberly Cohn (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided a gaming machine and method that utilize game-logic circuitry and a presentation assembly configured to display a plurality of sets of symbol-bearing reels. The plurality of reel sets are spun and stopped to populate respective arrays with symbols from the respective reel sets. The populated arrays represent respective symbol outcomes. In response to a trigge...