US Patent Issued to IGT on Aug. 12 for "Electronic gaming machine having reel assembly and transmissive display device with color characteristic adjustments" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,553, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Electronic gaming machine having reel assembly and transmissive display device with color characteristic adjustments" was invented by Scott Jones (Orovada, Nev.), Juan Carlos Hernandez (Reno, Nev.) and Stewart Thoeni (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming system including a housing, a reel assembly supported by the housing, the reel assembly including a rotatable reel having a reel strip having a section that is of a static color category and having a plurality of static color characteristics, and a backlight for the reel strip configured to provide a range of dif...