ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,665, issued on June 24.
"Gaming device having poker mystery feature" was invented by Bradley Berman (Minnetonka, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention set forth systems, apparatuses and methods for providing gaming devices having a poker mystery feature. Accordingly, a gaming device can be configured to have sub-symbol overlays that specify a replication feature that may replicate a card associated with the sub-symbol overlay and either replace a specified card that is adjacent to the card associated with the sub-symbol overlay, or create a multi-indicia card using the replication. Replication may ...