ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,766, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Independently randomly generated different features and enhancements associated with different activators" was invented by Stephen Calvert (Berkhamsted, Great Britain), Robin Hare (Reno, Nev.), Michael DeBrabander (Reno, Nev.) and Dieter Goriup (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gaming systems that in various embodiments provide for each of a plurality of pots, when the activator occurrence indicator(s) associated with that pot reach a pot conversion level for that pot, the occurrence of the activator associated with that pot causes an enhancement of the feature ass...