US Patent Issued to Aristocrat Technologies Australia on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for an electronic gaming machine employing eye gaze tracking system to animate reel symbols and generate video content" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,397, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).

"Systems and methods for an electronic gaming machine employing eye gaze tracking system to animate reel symbols and generate video content" was invented by Shane Perrow (Kembla Heights, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are gaming systems, methods and machines that include one or more eye gaze tracking systems. In particular, the eye gaze tracking system may be incorporated with a gaming system, or located with a gaming environment and otherwise connected to a gaming system. When the focus of the user's gaze i...