ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,207, issued on March 11, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Systems and methods for electronic gaming with trigger conditions" was invented by Rogelio Decasa Jr. (Renton, Wash.), Hanna Sanborn (Georgetown, Texas), Jeffrey Uss (Liberty Hill, Texas), Jennifer Mizzi (Round Rock, Texas) and Erick Ching (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, an electronic gaming system is described. The electronic gaming system includes a display device, a random number generator (RNG), a player input interface, and a game controller configured to execute instructions stored in a tangible, non-transitory,...