Patents by Inventor Stephen Jones-McQueen

Stephen Jones-McQueen 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: 20240104995
    Abstract: A gaming device includes a processor and a memory storing symbol data, trigger probability data for wager options, and instructions. The symbol data includes reel strips including positions dynamically configurable with trigger symbols associated with feature games, and trigger symbol sets including different versions of the trigger symbols and corresponding to the wager options. The instructions, when executed, cause the processor to receive a selected wager option; configure the reel strips by selecting a trigger symbol from the trigger symbol set corresponding to the selected wager option for the dynamically configurable positions; select symbols from the configured reel strips for display in symbol positions; control display of the selected symbols; and upon the selected symbols including a trigger symbol associated with a feature game, determine whether the feature game is triggered based on the trigger probability data for the selected wager option and an identity of the trigger symbol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: James Loader, Rajni Choudhary, Geoffrey Richardson, Benjamin Tinworth, Stephen Jones-McQueen
  • Publication number: 20230097046
    Abstract: A gaming device comprises a display, a random number generator, a processor, and a memory storing instructions. When the instructions are executed by the processor, they cause the processor to conduct a base game from which feature games and at least one composite feature game can be triggered, where the composite feature game comprises game play characteristics from a first feature game and a second feature game of the feature games, and the composite feature game comprises a combination of the different game play characteristics. The composite feature game is initiated in response to a composite feature trigger condition being met. The game instances are presented with one or more feature game icon, which are modified in presentation during the game instances in accordance with an associated game play characteristic for a particular instance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Upinder Dhaliwal, Paul Connelly, Gaurav Goel, Dean Agan, Nitin Gupta, Neil Street, William Holland, Stephen Jones-McQueen, Leon Roberts, Nicholas O'Sullivan, Samuel Walker, Claudia Rae, Hanson Santoso, Dinh Tran
  • Patent number: D875109
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kenneth Mark Upton, Terri I-Ting Chen, Thomas Elson, Stephen Jones-McQueen
  • Patent number: D898753
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
    Inventors: Kenneth Mark Upton, Terri I-Ting Chen, Thomas Elson, Stephen Jones-McQueen