US Patent Issued to LNW Gaming on May 26 for "Gaming machine and method with persistence feature" (Nevada Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,011, issued on May 26, was assigned to LNW Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Gaming machine and method with persistence feature" was invented by Kenneth Shawn Soong (Henderson, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming system comprises a gaming machine and game-logic circuitry. The gaming machine includes an electronic display device configured to display an array of symbol positions. The game-logic circuitry is configured to perform the operations of: spinning and stopping symbol-bearing reels to land one or more first value-bearing symbols borne by the reels in the array; animating the array to tag the symbol positions in which the first...