US Patent Issued to Aristocrat Technologies Australia on April 22 for "Gaming machine and method for displaying an expanded plurality of active symbols on a mechanical reel" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,163, issued on April 22, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).

"Gaming machine and method for displaying an expanded plurality of active symbols on a mechanical reel" was invented by Ryan Cuddy (Reno, Nev.) and Lyndsay Nelson Berger (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic gaming machine may include a plurality of mechanical reels, each of which may include a plurality of symbols, and a processor configured execute instructions stored on a memory. When the processor executes the instructions, the processor may control a first mechanical reel of the plurality of mechanical r...