US Patent Issued to ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES on Jan. 13 for "Gaming operation for dynamically and randomly modifying symbol awards displayed on a gaming device" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,096, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Las Vegas).

"Gaming operation for dynamically and randomly modifying symbol awards displayed on a gaming device" was invented by Scott Delekta (Las Vegas) and Allon Englman (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic gaming device is disclosed to (i) cause display of a game play matrix including a plurality of symbol positions including a set of active symbol positions and a set of locked symbol positions and arranged in columns and rows in response to triggering a bonus game; (ii) cause display of a modifier row proximate to the game play matrix where ...