US Patent Issued to IGT on May 27 for "Gaming systems and methods for removing a game symbol from a reel" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,342, issued on May 27, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Gaming systems and methods for removing a game symbol from a reel" was invented by Xiaodong Zhang (Beijing) and Hong Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for providing game symbol removal operations in games. The game symbol removal operation allows a player of the gaming device to provide input regarding a set of game symbols to be removed from a first configuration of an array of cells. Removing the game symbol(s) in the set of game symbols from the first configuration of the array of cells forms a second c...