Patents Assigned to Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
  • Patent number: 12223800
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine performs operations comprising: (i) receiving, from a first player of the electronic gaming machine, a first credit contribution; (ii) receiving, from a second player of the electronic gaming machine, a second credit contribution; (iii) aggregating the first credit contribution and the second credit contribution to create a combined credit balance; (iv) determining, based on the first credit contribution and the second credit contribution, a relative contribution of each of the first player and the second player to the combined credit balance; (v) determining, in response to at least one mutual wager, at least one outcome of the wagering game; (vi) one of incrementing and decrementing the combined credit balance based on the at least one outcome; (vii) receiving, from at least one of the first player and the second player, an instruction to cash out of the wagering game; and (viii) distributing a pro rata share of the combined credit balance to the at least one player in proportio
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventor: Daniel Mordecai Marks
  • Patent number: 12217575
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine includes a display device, a player input interface configured to receive player input from a player; and a game controller configured to execute instructions. The instructions cause the processor to display a plurality of game reels including a first game reel type having a plurality of symbol positions and a second game reel type including a grouped symbol position. The instructions also cause the processor to display a bonus symbol in the grouped system position and, in response to displaying the bonus symbol, to display an expanded display area comprising at least one additional symbol position located above the reels of the first game reel type. The instructions further cause the processor to determine a game outcome based upon a combination of the at least one additional symbol position and the plurality of symbol positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Gary Penacho, Thomas Tuomey, Allon Englman
  • Patent number: 12210719
    Abstract: A gaming system and processor module are therefore adapted to support simultaneous execution of two or more operating system instances. Program code is provided for play of the game uses two or more cooperating component processes partitioned such that at least one of the component processes executes using a first operating system instance, and at least one other cooperating component process executes using a further operating system instance. Each operating system instance may execute in its own virtual machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Zoran Tomicic, Drazen Lenger
  • Patent number: 12211338
    Abstract: An electronic gaming device comprising a display device, at least one input mechanism, a processor, and a memory storing a plurality of reel strips, and instructions which cause the processor to: select symbols from the reel strips for display at a plurality of symbol positions; display the symbols selected at the symbol positions; in response to a trigger condition being met, initiate an icon selection instance from which one prize of a set of prizes may be awarded, wherein each prize has an associated prize symbol; determine whether to remove one or more prizes from the set of prizes; display a plurality of selectable icons, each of the icons representing a prize; visually remove the one or more prizes; receive selections of the icons until an end condition of a plurality of end conditions is met; and provide an award.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Alessandro Sidoti, Dinh Tran, Hanson Santoso, Upinder Dhaliwal, Saurabh Kalra, Gaurav Goel, Sunil Singh, Romit Aggarwal, Nicholas O'Sullivan, Emily Chew
  • Patent number: 12198263
    Abstract: Determining a fit of a real-world electronic gaming machine (EGM) using a virtual representation of an EGM includes obtaining the virtual representation, obtaining sensor data for a real-world environment in which the virtual representation is to be presented, and detecting one or more surfaces in the real-world environment based on the sensor data. A determination is made that the virtual representation of the electronic gaming machine fits within the real-world environment in accordance with the real-world dimensions and the detected one or more surfaces. The virtual representation is presented in a mixed reality environment such that the virtual representation is blended into a view of a real-world environment along the one or more surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Upinder Dhaliwal, Eric Droukas, Patrick Petrella, III
  • Patent number: 12198503
    Abstract: A gaming machine, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium are disclosed, which permit a player to play a base game and a feature game that may be triggered or initiated through play of the base game. During play of the feature game, the gaming machine holds each instance of a feature trigger symbol in its respective feature game display position and, if a feature game has remaining spins, spins/respins reels to obtain replacement symbols for each feature game display position without the feature trigger symbol. If a newly-presented feature trigger symbol includes one or more directional components, the gaming machine propagates the new-presented feature trigger symbol in a direction or directions indicated by the one or more directional components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Sahil Malik, Shivangi Handa
  • Patent number: 12190676
    Abstract: Embodiments provide systems, apparatus, and methods for rendering supplemental information on an electronic gaming device, where the supplemental information does not relate to game play on the machine. The supplemental information can include safety warnings, maintenance information, or other information. The electronic gaming device can detect user interactions with the electronic gaming device, such as using sensors or a player interface that includes a touchscreen. The user interactions can be compared with a condition associated with the supplemental information. Feedback, such as visual, audio, or haptic feedback, or a combination thereof, can be provided to indicate to the user whether the condition is satisfied. Numerous additional aspects are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia PTY Limited
    Inventor: Bruce W. Essex
  • Patent number: 12190675
    Abstract: A gaming machine and method comprising independent displays and controls to play a game individually or as a group game between players. The gaming machine comprises a controller that controls, in individual games or group games and irrespective of wagers applied, each reel of a first set of reels and a second set of reels spin to a respective stop position to thereby select, at a conclusion of spinning, symbols that fill a first set of columns of symbol display positions and a second set of columns of symbol display positions, and evaluates the symbols displayed in the first set of columns of symbol display positions based on a pay table and wagers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventor: Natalie Bryant
  • Patent number: 12188261
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine including a cabinet defining an interior space. The electronic gaming machine also includes a door releasably fastened to the cabinet operable to move between a locked state preventing access to the interior space and an unlocked state permitting access to at least a portion of the interior space. A security housing comprising a locking assembly and an optical switch coupled to a processor. The locking assembly includes an actuator defining a channel. The optical switch comprises a transmitter and a receiver. When the door engages the locking assembly, the actuator is operable to move the channel to align with the transmitter and the receiver to form an optical path between the transmitter and the receiver through the channel and the optical switch is operable to communicate the locked state to at least one of the processor, the server computer, and the gaming system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Muharrem Abali, Calvin Kim, Jeffrey Skeen, Deepak Chaudhari
  • Patent number: 12183157
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine includes a display device, a memory device, and a processor. The processor displays a matrix of symbol positions formed by a plurality of reels. The processor also displays a bingo card. The processor determines an outcome that includes a first plurality of symbols to display in the matrix of symbol positions and evaluates the outcome to determine a win amount. The processor populates the matrix of bingo positions with the first prize symbol to a bingo position of the matrix of bingo positions corresponding to a position of the prize symbol in the matrix of symbol positions. The processor evaluates the matrix of bingo positions to determine whether a predefined winning pattern is formed and, in response, determines an award value based at least in part on numerical values of prize symbols forming the predefined winning pattern in the matrix of bingo positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Daniel Marks, Hua Xu
  • Patent number: 12183168
    Abstract: A gaming machine includes a display device and a game controller. The display device includes reels disposed horizontally along the display device. The reels include an initial reel, intermediary reels disposed right of the initial reel, and a last reel disposed right of the intermediary reels. Each reel presents a vertical column of symbols. The game controller spins the reels to obtain a first game outcome comprising a first array of symbols. In response to a first reel presenting a respin symbol, the game controller selects a second reel that is adjacent to the first reel based on wrap-around adjacency between the initial reel and the last reel, and respins the second reel to obtain a second game outcome comprising a second array of symbols. The game controller may also respin a horizontal row of symbols adjacent a respin symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: David Marsh, Karl Roelofs
  • Patent number: 12170003
    Abstract: A gaming machine presents a game in which an upgradeable object accrues value. The gaming machine includes a player input interface, a credit input mechanism and a game controller configured to perform operations. The game controller presents a primary game, in which a plurality of reels are simulated, spins the plurality of simulated reels each time a player makes a wager, determines, a number of scatter symbols stopped and displayed from the reels, triggers, a bonus game in which an appearance of the upgradeable game object is upgradeable and in which a credit value associated with the upgradeable game object is upgradeable, upgrades the appearance of the object, increases the credit value associated with the object, and adds the credit value associated with the object to the credit balance of the player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Michael Robert Cicchi, Michael Landon Stribling
  • Patent number: 12165462
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine includes a display, a player input device, a credit input mechanism, and a processor programmed to perform operations comprising: (i) display a search pattern matrix to a player on the display, the search pattern matrix includes a plurality of cells that are selectable by the player; (ii) receive an input selection of cells of the search pattern matrix from the player; (iii) search a pay table associated with a wagering game provided by the gaming machine for winning patterns included within the pay table and having at least the same plurality of cells daubed as are indicated by the search pattern matrix; and (iv) display the winning patterns identified by the searching to the player via the display, the displaying including presenting the winning patterns in a matrix display format identifying one or more daubed cells of the associated winning patterns within the matrix display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Rajat Rajput, Sunil Mohan, Rohit Kumar Jain
  • Patent number: 12165464
    Abstract: A gaming device is provided that includes a plurality of game windows, each game window having an identical array of symbol positions displayed therein. Symbols are selected for each column of symbol positions, and the columns are then each evaluated to determine if the selected symbols for a column meet a predetermined criterion, e.g., all symbols for the column being the same. If the selected symbols for a column meet the criterion, and the selected symbols of the corresponding column in the other display window do not, the corresponding column may be caused to change its selected symbols to match those in the column that has the selected symbols that meet the criterion. If all of the columns have selected symbols that meet the criterion after such evaluations and potential selected symbol changes are performed, then an award may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Oliver Crispino, Natalie Bryant
  • Patent number: 12165468
    Abstract: A gaming device comprises a main board comprising a processor, a memory storing system program code and an expansion port in data communication with a memory interface of the processor, and a memory expansion board connected to the main board via the expansion port. The memory expansion board comprises a device configured to execute a random number generator and write random numbers into one or more registers of the memory expansion board accessible by the main board, and at least one connector for connecting a memory module comprising game program code. When the processor requires random numbers, the system program code causes the processor to read random numbers from the one or more registers of the memory expansion board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Sandor Daranyi, Shane Perrow, Tyson Adams, Rodney Slade
  • Patent number: 12159510
    Abstract: Gaming devices, and methods for operating them, are provided that may display an attract mode display that includes one or more bonus markers and a plurality of denomination markers. One of the denomination markers may be highlighted, and a bonus prize associated with a bonus marker and the currently highlighted denomination marker may be determined and displayed in a region of the display associated with that bonus marker. The display may be controlled to display a denomination transition in which the highlighted denomination marker reverts to a non-highlighted representation and the next denomination marker is highlighted. In conjunction therewith, a bonus transition may be displayed in which the bonus prize displayed in association with at least one bonus marker is changed to a bonus prize associated with both that bonus marker and the newly highlighted denomination marker. Such operations may be repeated one or more times, if desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Marc Mayo, Claire Mileto, Lauren Chapple, Geoffrey Richardson
  • Patent number: 12159511
    Abstract: An electronic gaming machine includes a game controller configured to select a first plurality of card symbols to form a player hand for a player, wherein the first plurality of card symbols include a plurality of hole cards dealt only to the player and at least one community card. The game controller is also configured to select a second plurality of card symbols to form a jackpot hand, and determine whether at least one card symbol of the first plurality of card symbols matches at least one card symbol of the second plurality of card symbols. The game controller is also configured to adjust, based on the determining, a credit balance of the player by a value associated with a jackpot award based upon a number of hole cards in the player hand that match card symbols in the jackpot hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventor: Chi We Chim
  • Patent number: D1053953
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventor: Bruce Edward Urban
  • Patent number: D1061466
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventor: Rajendrasinh B. Jadeja
  • Patent number: D1061519
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventor: Reginna Eatman