US Patent Issued to IGT on Sept. 30 for "Gaming system and method providing a class II bingo game with a player-selectable wild spot feature" (Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,990, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to IGT (Las Vegas).

"Gaming system and method providing a class II bingo game with a player-selectable wild spot feature" was invented by Gianpaulo Sorreta (Sparks, Nev.) and Bradford Brown (Sparks, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The gaming system and method of the present disclosure provide a Class II bingo game with a player-selectable wild spot feature. Generally, for a play of the Class II bingo game and for each player, the gaming system provides that player a bingo card and enables the player to affirmatively designate up to a designated quantity of spots of the bingo card as wild spo...