ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,907, issued on June 17, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).
"Wheel section selection" was invented by Chris Peterson (Reno, Nev.), Nick Hillstrom (Reno, Nev.) and Nathan Ajhar (Sparks, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gaming systems and methods that provide a wheel section selection feature including a displayed wheel including a plurality of displayed gaming system selectable sections for a play of a secondary game. In various embodiments, one or more shared sections of the wheel and/or a wheel section indicator associated with the wheel are enhanced for the play of the secondary game based on a wager level in a play of the primary ...