US Patent Issued to IGT on Feb. 18 for "Independently randomly generated different award sets associated with different triggering symbols" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,106, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Independently randomly generated different award sets associated with different triggering symbols" was invented by Ginese Weyant (Reno, Nev.) and Robin Hare (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gaming systems and methods that for a play of a game randomly determine an award set associated with each specific triggering symbol and displays the award set in association with that triggering symbol. In various embodiments, the different triggering symbols are associated with different types of awards and different sets of awards. In various embodiments, the different trigger...