Patents by Inventor Leonard Hastings Ainsworth

Leonard Hastings Ainsworth has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Gaming machine
    Publication number: 20030069064
    Abstract: The invention concerns a gaming machine that simultaneously displays and operates at least two separated games (1, 2) of chance. Each of the games is capable of carrying separate bets and paying separate winnings so that the screen activity is increased and the gaming experience is intensified. This escalates and prologs the player's interest in the gaming machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Inventor: Leonard Hastings Ainsworth
  • Gaming machine
    Patent number: 6544120
    Abstract: A spinning reel video poker machine that displays an initial array of symbols that may be on a simulation of spinning reels (R1, R2, R3, R4, R5). In response to a trigger additional symbols will become available on the video screen to extend existing paylines or provide new paylines. The new paylines may be part of an extension to an existing array or they may be part of a separate array of symbols or set of reels that becomes available in response to the trigger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Ainsworth Game Technology Limited
    Inventor: Leonard Hastings Ainsworth
  • Gaming machine
    Publication number: 20020086726
    Abstract: The invention concerns a gaming machine adapted to accept bets on game events having a random outcome and paying winnings on the occurrence of predetermined winning game events wherein the winnings for each winning game event are determined in accordance with individual parameters associated with respective individual winning game events;
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2001
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Inventor: Leonard Hastings Ainsworth
  • Gaming machine
    Publication number: 20020077171
    Abstract: The invention concerns a gaming machine adapted to accept a bet on one or more winning outcomes of a game of chance; and. pay winnings of the occurrence of a winning outcome carrying a bet; wherein, the machine is configured to accept a single bet that is less than the smallest denomination of local currency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2001
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Inventor: Leonard Hastings Ainsworth
  • Gaming machine
    Publication number: 20020047238
    Abstract: A gaming machine of the type that displays an array of randomly arranged symbols and pays winnings upon the occurrence of certain winning combinations of symbols appearing in any portions of the array that occur in a bet. The gaming machine being configured such that when two or more predetermined symbols appear in the array adjacent each other they are displayed as a single oversized symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Inventors: Leonard Hastings Ainsworth, Jason Meyer
  • Gaming machine
    Publication number: 20020019254
    Abstract: A gaming machine with a display screen 6 showing separate sets 1, 2, 3 of symbols, the gaming machine being configured to move each set 1, 2, 3 of symbols relative to each other to form a random configuration of the various symbols on the display 6 and pay winnings on the occurrence of predetermined winning configurations of the symbols, wherein the display 6 simultaneously displays all the symbols in at least one of the sets 1, 2 or 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2001
    Publication date: February 14, 2002
    Inventor: Leonard Hastings Ainsworth
  • Gaming machine
    Publication number: 20020014740
    Abstract: A spinning reel video poker machine that displays an initial array of symbols that may be on a simulation of spinning reels (R1, R2, R3, R4, R5). In response to a trigger additional symbols will become available on the video screen to extend existing paylines or provide new paylines. The new paylines may be part of an extension to all existing array or they may be part of a separate array of symbols or set of reels that becomes available in response to the trigger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2001
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Inventor: Leonard Hastings Ainsworth