ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,663, issued on June 24, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).
"Systems and methods for providing a pattern multiplier feature game" was invented by Hanna Sanborn (Georgetown, Texas), Chad La Guardia (Austin, Texas), Erick Ching (Cedar Park, Texas) and Rogelio Decasa Jr. (Renton, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic gaming machine includes a game controller configured to (a) determine, during a base game, that a feature game trigger condition is satisfied; (b) activate a feature game within the base game; (c) display, a feature game play area associated with the feature game, the feature game play are...