ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,513, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to LNW Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).

"Gaming machine and method with cross collect feature" was invented by Richard Milosevich (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a gaming system, gaming machine, and method that utilize an electronic display device configured to display a plurality of symbol-bearing reels. Using a random number generator, game-logic circuitry conducts a series of games comprising animating the spinning and stopping of the reels to place symbols in an array. The game-logic circuitry further animates column values and row values (e.g., in relation to the columns a...