ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,566, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).
"Gaming device with fillable symbol position pattern" was invented by Nicholas Bennett (Manly Vale, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for using symbol position patterns includes performing a selection operation, using the random number generator and a data structure comprising a plurality of symbol position patterns to obtain one of the symbol position patterns, and modifying display of the plurality of symbol positions in accordance with the selected symbol position pattern. A symbol selection instance is pe...