ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,906, issued on June 17, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).
"Proximity increased chances of win during special event" was invented by Nick Hillstrom (Reno, Nev.), Lauren Hillstrom (Reno, Nev.), Nathan Ajhar (Sparks, Nev.) and Chris Peterson (Reno, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method of operating a gaming system can include determining that a first event has been triggered on a first electronic gaming machine ("EGM"). The method can further include, responsive to determining that the first event has been triggered on the first EGM, causing a probability of triggering a second event on a second EGM to be adju...