ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,576, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).
"Gaming system and method providing multi-function symbol accumulation sequences" was invented by Klaus Hufnagl-Abraham (Graz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, the present disclosure relates generally to gaming systems and methods that provide a first game sequence including an accumulation of designated symbols during a plurality of sequential plays of one or more of a plurality of different games of the first game sequence. In various embodiments, the gaming system determines which of the plurality of different games are employed for each play of a...