ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,756, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).
"Electronic method of gaming" was invented by Matthew Chan (Gordon, Australia), Emily Therese Margaret Ross (Las Vegas) and Hanna Lee Sanborn (Pflugerville, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming machine comprising a display, and a game controller that at least: selects a first set of symbols, causes the display to display the first set of symbols at a first set of display positions and conducts a random selection process so that a second set of display positions has an overlapping spatial relationship with a first set o...