US Patent Issued to Aristocrat Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Persistent collection feature systems and methods" (Texas, Nevada, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,612, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Persistent collection feature systems and methods" was invented by Nathan Warms (Austin, Texas), Jennifer Mizzi (Round Rock, Texas), Rogelio Decasa Jr. (Renton, Wash.), Hanna Sanborn (Georgetown, Texas), Zachary Smith (Austin, Texas), Erick Ching (Cedar Park, Texas) and Kevin Walsh (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming device is provided. The gaming device is configured to determine that at least a threshold number of scatter symbols is displayed in respective slot positions of a plurality of reels, determine a number of free spin credits f...