ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,544, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to LNW Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Gaming machine and method with replay feature" was invented by Namitha Nagesh Kalyanpur (The Ponds, Australia), Joel Jaffe (Glenview, Ill.), Richard Milosevich (Las Vegas), Kenneth Shawn Soong (Henderson, Nev.) and Michael W. Tucker (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a gaming system, gaming machine, and method that utilize an electronic display device configured to display a set of symbol-bearing reels. In a reel spin, the set of reels are spun and stopped to randomly place symbols in an array. In response to one or more triggering conditions, ...