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Article: German Inventor Develops Gaming Machine Jackpot Award Value Determining Method
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- December 4, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 4 -- Paul Gauselmann of Espelkamp, Germany, has developed a method of determining the value of a jackpot award.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method entails operating a main game to obtain an outcome, at least one of the outcomes providing an initial award amount and enabling a secondary game. A player is then allowed to wager the initial award amount in the secondary game. The secondary game then identifies a winning or losing outcome."
An abstract of the invention, released by the Patent Office, said: "The winning outcome results in an increase of the initial award amount by some incremental amount. The player may continue to wager all or ...