US Patent Issued to Aristocrat Technologies Australia on Dec. 30 for "System and method of providing a hold-and-spin game with configurable symbol splitting" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,977, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).

"System and method of providing a hold-and-spin game with configurable symbol splitting" was invented by Gaurav Jairath (New Delhi), Amresh Singh (Greater Noida, India) and Vinu Nair (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming machine provides a spinning reel game having a base game, from which a hold-and-spin game is triggered when a determined quantity of configurable symbols are displayed in a base game outcome. For each spin of the feature game, spin tags of configurable symbols are updated. When the spin tags...