US Patent Issued to LNW Gaming on Sept. 9 for "Gaming system and method with a symbol weighting feature" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,441, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to LNW Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Gaming system and method with a symbol weighting feature" was invented by Brett Jackson (Henderson, Nev.) and Lucas E. Parkinson (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a gaming system and methods that utilize a presentation assembly configured to present a series of spins of a plurality of reels arranged in an array, the array including a subset of the array in which weights are assigned to the symbols within the subset. Determination of winning combinations of the symbols in the array is based, in part, on the weights assigned to the symbols. ...