Gaming system and method providing a slot game in which different sets of symbols are randomly associated with different symbol display areas and used to determine an outcome

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9189926
APP PUB NO 20150072751A1
SERIAL NO

14021638

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Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a gaming system and method providing a slot game in which, for each play of the slot game, different sets of symbols are randomly associated with different symbol display areas and used to determine an outcome for that play of the slot game. Generally, for each play of the slot game, the gaming system does so by: (a) randomly associating each of a plurality of different sets of symbols with a different one of a plurality of different symbol display areas; (b) for each of the sets of symbols, randomly selecting one of the symbols of that set to determine an outcome for that play of the slot game; and (c) displaying the randomly selected symbols at the associated symbol display areas (i.e., displaying the determined outcome).

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Allen,, II Thomas Reno, US 2 4
Blake, Lukas Sparks, US 1 4
Burgess, Kimberly A Sparks, US 1 4
Duenas, Harvey Reno, US 6 16
Hallerbach, Boris Reno, US 6 78
Jacobs, Ken Maryland Heights, US 1 4
Meugniot, Marc Sun Valley, US 1 4
Pooser, Gretchan P Reno, US 1 4
Ross, Dave Reno, US 4 49
Veltman, Dana Reno, US 1 4
Warren, Erik Sparks, US 1 4

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