ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,703, issued on March 25, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).

"Systems and methods for game state retention and continuation at electronic gaming machines" was invented by Natalie Bryant (Cherrybrook, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic gaming machine includes a display device and a processor configured to execute instructions stored in a memory, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to generate a game-state-retention sign based upon a plurality of game variables representing a state of a wagering game, where the game-state-retention sign includes ...