Gaming machine

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9865132
SERIAL NO

14628384

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Provided is a gaming machine that presents a prediction of the start of free games provided in bonus games to be easily noted by the player, to attain the player's expectation for the free games. When a free game trigger or retrigger is established, the gaming machine controls selection and implementation of predictive effects for indicating that free games are to be started (or retriggered) depending on the positions of the symbols to stop, before displaying stopped symbols.

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Patent Owner(s)

  • ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC.;UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Itagaki, Takehisa Tokyo, JP 52 373
Kawakami, Yukihiro Tokyo, JP 12 66
Miyagawa, Yuji Tokyo, JP 22 415
Yoshida, Masahiro Tokyo, JP 511 4934

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