US Patent Issued to Aristocrat Technologies on Oct. 21 for "Systems and methods for a free spin count-up and subsequent count-down" (Virginia, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,985, issued on Oct. 21, 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: "An electronic gaming device includes a display device and a processor configured to execute instructions stored in a memory device. When executed, the instructions cause the processor to at least initiate a primary bonus game in response to a free play trigger condition being satisfied during a base game and determine a number of free spins of a plurality of reels for us...