US Patent Issued to Games Global Operations on Oct. 7 for "Randomized symbol replacement with synchronization" (South African Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,604, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Games Global Operations Ltd. (Douglas, Isle of Man).

"Randomized symbol replacement with synchronization" was invented by Rory Angus Harpur (Durban North, South Africa) and Marcus Douglas Thorpe-Fairall (Kloof, South Africa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment may involve receiving, at a receiving component, an instruction; determining, by way of a random number generator (RNG), a set of symbols and a sync symbol; displaying, on a display component, the set of symbols in a two-dimensional array and the sync symbol in a preview space; and while there are pre-determined patterns of symbols ...