US Patent Issued to Aristocrat Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Automated grouping system and method for a merge and match game mechanic" (Canadian, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,191, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Automated grouping system and method for a merge and match game mechanic" was invented by Zoe Williams (Warwickshire, Great Britain), Colin Drake (Bend, Ore.), Michael Ostashewski (Vancouver, Canada), Dave Smith (Burnaby, Canada) and Suguru Motegi (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming system is provided. The gaming system may be configured to (1) store, in a memory, an initial location of a plurality of game items within a plurality of game board tiles; (2) cause the user device to display a user interface including the plurality...