ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,714, issued on March 25, was assigned to Konami Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).
"Gaming machine and methods of operating gaming machines" was invented by Hong Wei (Las Vegas), Scott Dorsch (Las Vegas) and Sam Ellis (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 processor programmed to execute an algorithm including the steps of displaying a game screen including a plurality reels, a bonus wheel including a plurality of wheel wedges displaying prize symbols and a prize selector, and a bonus wheel meter including a number of bonus wheel symbols. The processor is programmed to spi...