ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,701, issued on March 25, was assigned to Aries Technology LLC (Las Vegas).

"Games and gaming machines having wheel features" was invented by Robert Manz (Las Vegas), Terry Daly (Las Vegas), Robert DelRossi (Las Vegas), Erica Frohm (Evanston, Ill.) and Charlie Lombardo (Henderson, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gaming machines and games are configured with one or more wheel events or features. The wheel events or features may comprise main games or bonus games, or may comprise entertaining representations of outcomes of other games or events. The wheel events comprise the selection of one or more segments of a wheel having assoc...