ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,758, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).
"Additional award opportunities for qualifying symbol combinations" was invented by Caleb Smithers (Bullaburra, Australia), Arram Bekarian (North Ryde, Australia) and Jun Yi (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gaming systems and methods that offer one or more additional award opportunities responsive to a qualifying symbol combination occurring in association with a satisfaction of one or more secondary event conditions."
The patent was filed on Aug. 28, 2023, under Application No. 18/238,821.
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