US Patent Issued to Aristocrat Technologies Australia on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods for providing a reel game having features associated with persistent elements" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,737, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).

"Systems and methods for providing a reel game having features associated with persistent elements" was invented by Igor Suslik (St Ives, Australia), Matthew Chan (Gordon, Australia), Claudia Rae (Waitara, Australia) and Xin Liu (Denistone West, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming system includes a game controller configured to, for each game round of a game: select symbols from a first set that includes first special symbols for display in symbol positions associated with reels to form a game outcome; select a se...