US Patent Issued to Aristocrat Technologies on Sept. 23 for "System and method of providing a hold and spin feature game with progressive play meters" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,064, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).

"System and method of providing a hold and spin feature game with progressive play meters" was invented by Daniel Marks (Decatur, Ga.), Hua Xu (Marietta, Ga.) and Dinesh Dua (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming machine provides a base game, from which a hold and spin feature game is triggered when a determined number of configurable symbols are displayed in a base game outcome. When the feature game is triggered, the configurable symbols are held in place on the display one or more spins are provided during the feature game in whic...