Patents by Inventor Rex Carlson

Rex Carlson 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).

  • Publication number: 20170337774
    Abstract: This is disclosed an electronic method of gaming. The method comprises selecting a symbol for display at each display position of a plurality of sets of display positions (710), modifying the displayed symbols by interchanging a first set of symbols displayed at a first set of display positions with a second set of symbols displayed at a second set of display positions (740), and determining whether to make an award based on the symbols displayed at the plurality of sets of display positions as modified 750. There is also disclosed a gaming system, a game controller and a gaming machine corresponding to the electronic method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Rex Carlson, Scott Monroe Stewart
  • Patent number: 9728045
    Abstract: This is disclosed an electronic method of gaming. The method comprises selecting a symbol for display at each display position of a plurality of sets of display positions (710), modifying the displayed symbols by interchanging a first set of symbols displayed at a first set of display positions with a second set of symbols displayed at a second set of display positions (740), and determining whether to make an award based on the symbols displayed at the plurality of sets of display positions as modified 750. There is also disclosed a gaming system, a game controller and a gaming machine corresponding to the electronic method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Rex Carlson, Scott Monroe Stewart
  • Publication number: 20110294560
    Abstract: This is disclosed an electronic method of gaming. The method comprises selecting a symbol for display at each display position of a plurality of sets of display positions (710), modifying the displayed symbols by interchanging a first set of symbols displayed at a first set of display positions with a second set of symbols displayed at a second set of display positions (740), and determining whether to make an award based on the symbols displayed at the plurality of sets of display positions as modified 750. There is also disclosed a gaming system, a game controller and a gaming machine corresponding to the electronic method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Inventors: Rex Carlson, Scott Monroe Stewart
  • Publication number: 20110117993
    Abstract: An example game controller includes a symbol generator to provide a plurality of symbols based on one or more random numbers generated by a random number generator. The plurality of symbols have varying sizes and include a first symbol occupying one symbol position and a second symbol occupying multiple symbol positions. The second symbol includes a plurality of portions, each portion corresponding to one of the multiple symbol positions occupied by the second symbol. A comparator is to determine one or more game outcomes in the plurality of symbols. each of the plurality of portions of the second symbol is evaluated individually to determine whether a winning combination has been formed with the first symbol and a portion of the second symbol. Each of the plurality of portions of the second symbol corresponds to a different award.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Applicant: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Rex Carlson, Scott Stewart
  • Patent number: 6855052
    Abstract: A gaming device having a first chance opportunity and a second, serially dependent, chance opportunity is provided. The first chance opportunity is preferably a multiple reel game having a special outcome for triggering the second chance opportunity. The second chance opportunity is preferably a plurality of wheels rotatably coupled to a tower atop the reel game. The first of the wheels will spin and provide an outcome upon a specified outcome of the reel game. Each successive wheel will spin when a specified outcome is depicted on a previous wheel. This will continue until either the specified outcome does not occur or the last wheel is spun. In another version, plural wheels are each uniquely related—one to a given reel, such that a certain reel outcome will energize its associated wheel only. Multiple wheels, when synchronized to a certain outcome, lead to a bigger wheel for a jackpot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven A. Weiss, Jay Stone, Rex Carlson, Robert M. Dickenson
  • Publication number: 20020193158
    Abstract: A gaming device having a first chance means and a second, serially dependent, chance means is provided. The first chance means is preferably a multiple reel game having a special outcome for triggering the second chance means. The second chance means is preferably a plurality of wheels rotatably coupled to a tower atop the reel game. The first of the wheels will spin and provide an outcome upon a specified outcome of the reel game. Each successive wheel will spin when a specified outcome is depicted on a previous wheel. This will continue until either the specified outcome does not occur or the last wheel is spun. In another version, plural wheels are each uniquely related—one to a given reel, such that a certain reel outcome will energize its associated wheel only. Multiple wheels, when synchronized to a certain outcome, lead to a bigger wheel for a jackpot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2001
    Publication date: December 19, 2002
    Inventors: Steven A. Weiss, Jay Stone, Rex Carlson, Robert M. Dickenson
  • Patent number: 6089976
    Abstract: A gaming apparatus and method including a primary game and a player interactive bonus game actuated by a qualifying outcome of the primary game and including a bonus award display showing a multiplicity of images displayed on a video monitor from which a player selects until achieving a pair of matched bonus awards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2000
    Assignee: Casino Data Systems
    Inventors: Richard Jay Schneider, Rex Carlson