ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,445, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Electronic gaming device having lookup tables associated with targeted volatility and win liability controls" was invented by Ryan Hawkins (Henderson, Nev.), Stephanie Klepzig (Las Vegas) and Robert Honeycutt (Henderson, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic gaming device including a display device operable to display a portion of a plurality of reels, and a controller. The controller includes a processor to associate a first lookup table and a second lookup table with a first symbol and a second symbol from a first reel, respectively, sel...