ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,275, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to LNW Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).
"Gaming machine and method with a symbol collection feature" was invented by Bernadine Attard (Castlereagh, Australia) and David Little (Woollahra, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a gaming method and system that utilize a presentation assembly configured to present a series of spins of a plurality of reels arranged in an array, the plurality of reels including value-bearing symbols, wherein any value-bearing symbol that lands in an active subset of the array is collected in a collection area. At a conclusion of the series of spins, a payou...