US Patent Issued to Aristocrat Technologies Australia on Sept. 16 for "Gaming system with feature game having collectable components for prizes" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,675, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd. (North Ryde, Australia).

"Gaming system with feature game having collectable components for prizes" was invented by Karen Kendall (Toongabbie, Australia), James Loader (Springfield, Australia), Lauren Paterson (Kellyville, Australia) and Antoon Visser (Coogee, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic gaming device comprising a display that displays a plurality of symbols in a plurality of symbol positions, a game controller that determines if the plurality of symbols include a trigger symbol, in response to determining that the pluralit...