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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2026
Filed:
May. 09, 2023
Applicant:
Igt, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Inventors:
Nick Hillstrom, Reno, NV (US);
Nathan Ajhar, Sparks, NV (US);
Lauren Hillstrom, Reno, NV (US);
Yu Chong, Reno, NV (US);
Assignee:
IGT, Las Vegas, NV (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07F 17/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G07F 17/3213 (2013.01); G07F 17/3267 (2013.01);
Abstract
Gaming systems and methods that provide a symbol replacement based on sub-value comparisons feature for a play of a game. In various embodiments, for the play of the game, for each of a plurality of symbol display elements, the gaming system sequentially causes the display of a current symbol on that symbol display element, and determines whether to change one or more previously displayed symbols based on zero, one, or more comparisons of respective sub-values for that current symbol and the previously displayed symbols.