ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,257, issued on June 3, was assigned to Konami Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).
"Gaming machine, control method for machine, and program for gaming machine" was invented by Adam Bland (Las Vegas) and Yuji Ono (Las Vegas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming machine is described herein. The gaming machine includes a game control unit programmed to display a game screen including a primary game area a plurality of primary game reels and a bonus feature event area including a plurality of bonus prize cells. Each bonus prize cell is configured to display a randomly selected bonus prize, and is operable as one of an active bonus prize cell and an...