US Patent Issued to IGT on July 8 for "Symbol accumulation sequence with one or more different enhancement features" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,442, issued on July 8, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Symbol accumulation sequence with one or more different enhancement features" was invented by David Shane (Reno, Nev.) and Michael DeBrabander (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gaming systems and methods providing a symbol accumulation sequence that includes one or more different enhancement features. The different enhancement features can be provided individually or can be provided in any suitable combination of these different enhancement features including two or more or all of the different enhancement features combined together. The different enhancement features c...