ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,489, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to LNW Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).
"Gaming system and method with symbol cluster feature" was invented by Emma Charles (Beaconsfield, Australia) and Lloyd Sefton (Beaconsfield, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a gaming system, gaming machine, and method that utilize a presentation assembly configured to present a plurality of reels and an array. The plurality of reels bear a plurality of symbols including clusters of multiple value-bearing symbols. The reels are spun and stopped to land symbols from the plurality of symbols in the array. In response to the landed symbols inc...