ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,253, issued on June 3, was assigned to LNW Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).
"Gaming machine with hierarchical collector feature" was invented by Sarah Leggett (Chicago) and Jeremy Hornik (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an example gaming system (and method) that utilizes a presentation assembly configured to present a plurality of reels. The plurality of reels bear a plurality of symbols including value-bearing symbols and at least two special symbols. The at least two special symbols comprise at least a first special symbol and a second special symbol. The plurality of symbols are ranked according to a hierarchy. The...