US Patent Issued to Aristocrat Technologies Australia on Dec. 9 for "Electronic gaming machine with base games and upgraded free feature games with multiple versions displayed" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,112, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).

"Electronic gaming machine with base games and upgraded free feature games with multiple versions displayed" was invented by Karen Kendall (Toongabbie, Australia) and Amy Batsiokis (North Ryde, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a gaming machine for playing a base game having a feature game with multiple levels: receiving a wager from a player for playing four instances of the base game, where the wager is deducted from a credit balance established by the player. Symbols for each of the four instances of the base game ma...