ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,629, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Brightstar Global Solutions Corp. (Providence, R.I.).
"Lottery ticket vending machine" was invented by Paul A Bucci (Glocester, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instant lottery ticket vending machine configured to determine if its ticket bursters are improperly separating the lottery tickets received from the ticket drawers of the ticket drawer columns, and to make one or more adjustments and/or alert an operator if its ticket bursters are improperly separating the lottery tickets. In various embodiments, each of the tickets bursters includes a suitable ticket edge sensor configured to sens...