ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,061, issued on May 13, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).
"Gaming machine with column specific awards" was invented by Eric Boese (Decatur, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During play of a feature game, a gaming machine holds each feature trigger symbol at its respective display position, and if a group of symbol display positions has spins remaining, spins/respins reels of the respective group to obtain replacement symbols for each non-feature trigger symbol in the group. For each of group of symbol display positions, the gaming machine determines, based on the symbols in the groups, whether to award a priz...