US Patent Issued to Everi Games on Jan. 28 for "Gaming machine and method with numerical basis for prizes in reels" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,343, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Everi Games Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Gaming machine and method with numerical basis for prizes in reels" was invented by Charles A. Medford (Jarrell, Texas) and Daniel W. Eulenfeld (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming machine and method for operating a slot machine game in which virtual or mechanical reels include numbers from which a prize amount is produced by concatenation. In response to a wager activation by a player, the reels display conduct a base game including spinning the reels and stopping to produce a respective randomly selected outcome having a plurality of sy...