ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,642, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Konami Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).
"Gaming machines and methods for operating gaming machines" was invented by Ian Arrowsmith (Las Vegas), John Pariseau (Las Vegas) and Kim Yost (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 to display an animated sequence of computer-generated images on a display device including the steps of rendering a plurality of games on a game screen with each game including a plurality of virtual reels, and animating each of the plurality of virtual reels to spin and s...