ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,652, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to LNW Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).
"Gaming machine and method with dynamic game progression" was invented by George Bouvier (Henderson, Nev.), Kimberly Cohn (Las Vegas) and John Kearns (Henderson, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming system comprises game-logic circuitry and a display device configured to display an active array of symbol positions. The game-logic circuitry establishes award levels having respective awards and respective array sizes and establishes a predefined path defining progression through the award levels. The display device selectively populates the active array with sym...