ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,748, issued on March 18, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (Las Vegas).
"Gaming machine having separated feature games" was invented by Eric Satterlie (Las Vegas) and Christmas Uberuaga (Reno, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming machine having three displays of (1) five mechanical reels, (2) five video reels and (3) a single multi-slice wheel. Gaming interaction between the three displays provides a base game on the mechanical reels from which (1) a first spinning-reel-type bonus game is triggered and (2) a second wheel-type bonus game is triggered."
The patent was filed on Dec. 13, 2022, under App...