US Patent Issued to SEGA SAMMY CREATION on May 13 for "Game device, game control method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,071, issued on May 13, was assigned to SEGA SAMMY CREATION INC. (Tokyo).

"Game device, game control method, and recording medium" was invented by Masato Ito (Tokyo) and Seiji Kato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A game device comprises a control unit, a storage unit, and a display unit. The control unit executes a program in the storage unit for a game control method, including: displaying a spin image of a reel on the display unit; determining an additional number of wild symbols capable of being substituted for any symbol when a predetermined condition is satisfied when the reel stops spinning; determining a disposition posit...