ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,983, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to LNW Gaming Inc. (Las Vegas).
"Gaming systems and methods with branching catalyst events" was invented by Sarah Leggett (Chicago) and Jeremy Hornik (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming system and methods thereof that utilize game-logic circuitry and a presentation assembly that presents a plurality of symbol positions, one or more persistent elements respectively associated with one or more bonus game features, and one or more game outcomes by populating the symbol positions with a respective set of symbols. In response to detecting a catalyst event including a feature-triggering sym...