US Patent Issued to IGT on Nov. 4 for "Independently randomly generated different full and partial features associated with activators" (British, Austrian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,648, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Independently randomly generated different full and partial features associated with 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 and methods configured to independently generate, display, and provide different full and partial features in association with different activators during plays of a game. If the gaming system determines not to provide the full feature associated with a pot based on an occurrence of the a...