US Patent Issued to Aristocrat Technologies on July 22 for "Systems and methods for a free spin count-up and subsequent count-down" (Virginia, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,742, issued on July 22, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Systems and methods for a free spin count-up and subsequent count-down" was invented by David Marsh (Charlottesville, Va.) and Daniel Marston (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A free spin count-up bonus game and a subsequent banked free spin count-down secondary bonus game are described herein. The free spin count-up game may be triggered during play of a base game. A numerical indicium may be provided. During the free spin count-up bonus game, the indicium may count up from an initial value to a final value. When the indicium reaches a maximu...