ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,662, issued on June 24, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).
"Systems and methods for consolidating symbols in electronic gaming" was invented by David Marsh (Charlottesville, Va.) and Karl Roelofs (Charlottesville, Va.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic gaming device including a display device, a memory device storing instructions, and a processor in communication with the display device and the memory device is described. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to cause display of a plurality of symbols, present an output amount, determine that the plurality of symbols in...