ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,651, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to GAMING1 (Liege, Belgium).

"Interactive slot game with cross-device synchronization and sequential reel revelation" was invented by Jean-Christophe Choffray (Neupre, Belgium), Christophe Boniver (Beaufays, Belgium) and Sylvain Boniver (Beaufays, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interactive slot game characterized by a display of one or multiple grids receives input corresponding to initiating a turn for a slot game, in response to the received input initiating the turn for the slot game, randomly draws symbols for reels of the slot game, displays a reel to be placed in a grid of the one o...