US Patent Issued to Blackhawk Network on Oct. 21 for "Pre-printed and pre-selected lottery tickets for point-of-sale purchase" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,986, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Blackhawk Network Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Pre-printed and pre-selected lottery tickets for point-of-sale purchase" was invented by Richard Alan Gotlieb (Alamo, Calif.), Prashant Nedungadi (San Jose, Calif.), Melissa Murillo (Tracy, Calif.), Ryan Koop (Dover Centre, Canada) and Gino Giunti (Sault Ste. Marie, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including receiving an activation request including an identifier uniquely identifying the pre-printed lottery ticket for a pre-printed lottery ticket from a point-of-sale terminal, accessing a record associated with the pre-printed lottery ...