Patents by Inventor Keith Kim

Keith Kim 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).

  • Method of gaming, a gaming system and a game controller
    Patent number: 8585488
    Abstract: A method of gaming comprising: selecting, in each whole reel symbol game round, symbols for display to a player in a set of display positions, subsets of the display positions corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of reels set side by side, by: selecting a whole reel symbol from a whole reel symbol set for at least one of the reels, such that the whole reel symbol is at all display positions of the at least one reel, and, selecting symbols for each of the other reels from respective ones of a plurality of reel symbol sets, each reel symbol set comprised of a plurality of different symbols; and determining an outcome for each game round based on the selected symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventor: Hyong Joo (Keith) Kim
  • METHOD OF GAMING, A GAMING SYSTEM AND A GAME CONTROLLER
    Publication number: 20090227339
    Abstract: A method of gaming comprising: selecting, in each whole reel symbol game round, symbols for display to a player in a set of display positions, subsets of the display positions corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of reels set side by side, by: selecting a whole reel symbol from a whole reel symbol set for at least one of the reels, such that the whole reel symbol is at all display positions of the at least one reel, and, selecting symbols for each of the other reels from respective ones of a plurality of reel symbol sets, each reel symbol set comprised of a plurality of different symbols; and determining an outcome for each game round based on the selected symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2009
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Inventor: Hyong Joo (Keith) Kim
  • Clip for circuit board
    Patent number: D721949
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Keith Kim, Yeon-Woo Kim, Gyu-Sub Kim, Se-Hyun Park, Jin-Woo Jung, Brian Cheon