ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,280, issued on July 1, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).
"Gaming system having a reel assembly with winning symbol combination indicating reel dividers" was invented by William Bussick (Reno, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming system having a gaming system including a housing and a reel assembly positioned in and supported by the housing, the reel assembly including a frame, a plurality of individually rotatable reels supported by the frame, a plurality of reel dividers positioned adjacent to the respective sides of the reels, and a plurality of selectively and individually illuminable outcome indicators respectively connecte...