Patents by Inventor Ryan North

Ryan North 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: 20250205590
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide an electronic gaming machine, systems and methods with a wheel feature mode dependent on base game outcomes. Specifically, a gaming machine comprises a user interface, a display device, and a game controller. The wheel feature mode is triggered during a base game based on wheel feature mode trigger conditions. The wheel feature mode animates a graphical user interface to present a spinning feature wheel that provides credit value awards, dependent on base game outcomes (e.g., one or more base game bingo pattern outcomes), through a sequence of player-initiated feature wheel spins. If one or more winning base game outcomes remain in the base game, the wheel feature mode continues with each wheel slice value reset, such that the minimum wheel slice value is equal to or greater than the previous spinning feature wheel credit value award which continues until no winning base game outcomes remain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2025
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Inventors: David Marsh, Karl A. Roelofs, Ryan North
  • Patent number: 12257515
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide an electronic gaming machine, systems and methods with a wheel feature mode dependent on base game outcomes. Specifically, a gaming machine comprises a user interface, a display device, and a game controller. The wheel feature mode is triggered during a base game based on wheel feature mode trigger conditions. The wheel feature mode animates a graphical user interface to present a spinning feature wheel that provides credit value awards, dependent on base game outcomes (e.g., one or more base game bingo pattern outcomes), through a sequence of player-initiated feature wheel spins. If one or more winning base game outcomes remain in the base game, the wheel feature mode continues with each wheel slice value reset, such that the minimum wheel slice value is equal to or greater than the previous spinning feature wheel credit value award which continues until no winning base game outcomes remain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David Marsh, Karl Roelofs, Ryan North
  • Publication number: 20240009550
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide an electronic gaming machine, systems and methods with a wheel feature mode dependent on base game outcomes. Specifically, a gaming machine comprises a user interface, a display device, and a game controller. The wheel feature mode is triggered during a base game based on wheel feature mode trigger conditions. The wheel feature mode animates a graphical user interface to present a spinning feature wheel that provides credit value awards, dependent on base game outcomes (e.g., one or more base game bingo pattern outcomes), through a sequence of player-initiated feature wheel spins. If one or more winning base game outcomes remain in the base game, the wheel feature mode continues with each wheel slice value reset, such that the minimum wheel slice value is equal to or greater than the previous spinning feature wheel credit value award which continues until no winning base game outcomes remain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: David Marsh, Karl Roelofs, Ryan North
  • Patent number: 11801438
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide an electronic gaming machine, systems and methods with a wheel feature mode dependent on base game outcomes. Specifically, a gaming machine comprises a user interface, a display device, and a game controller. The wheel feature mode is triggered during a base game based on wheel feature mode trigger conditions. The wheel feature mode animates a graphical user interface to present a spinning feature wheel that provides credit value awards, dependent on base game outcomes (e.g., one or more base game bingo pattern outcomes), through a sequence of player-initiated feature wheel spins. If one or more winning base game outcomes remain in the base game, the wheel feature mode continues with each wheel slice value reset, such that the minimum wheel slice value is equal to or greater than the previous spinning feature wheel credit value award which continues until no winning base game outcomes remain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc. (ATI)
    Inventors: David Marsh, Karl Roelofs, Ryan North
  • Publication number: 20230316860
    Abstract: An electronic gaming device including a display device, a memory device, and a game controller including a processor is described. The processor is configured to determine a total output amount for an electronic game, determine a display sequence of a plurality of display sequences stored in the memory device and associated with the output amount, and control display of the base display pattern in a first display area on the display device. The processor is also configured to control display of a first feature display pattern of the plurality of feature display patterns in a second display area on the display device, and control sequential display of each remaining feature display pattern in the second display area, wherein each at least one symbol in each subsequent feature display pattern is associated with an output amount greater than or equal to any currently displayed at least one symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: David Marsh, Karl Roelofs, Ryan North
  • Publication number: 20220395744
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide an electronic gaming machine, systems and methods with a wheel feature mode dependent on base game outcomes. Specifically, a gaming machine comprises a user interface, a display device, and a game controller. The wheel feature mode is triggered during a base game based on wheel feature mode trigger conditions. The wheel feature mode animates a graphical user interface to present a spinning feature wheel that provides credit value awards, dependent on base game outcomes (e.g., one or more base game bingo pattern outcomes), through a sequence of player-initiated feature wheel spins. If one or more winning base game outcomes remain in the base game, the wheel feature mode continues with each wheel slice value reset, such that the minimum wheel slice value is equal to or greater than the previous spinning feature wheel credit value award which continues until no winning base game outcomes remain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: David Marsh, Karl Roelofs, Ryan North