US Patent Issued to IGT on June 3 for "Gaming system and method with awards associated with guaranteed symbol generations" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,252, issued on June 3, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Gaming system and method with awards associated with guaranteed symbol generations" was invented by Timothy Kennedy (Reno, Nev.) and Robin Heenan (Reno, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gaming systems and methods that maintain a progressive award associated with a guaranteed minimum quantity of generations of a designated symbol in a sequence of one or more plays of a game."

The patent was filed on March 14, 2022, under Application No. 17/694,124.

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