ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,970, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to BRIGHTSTAR GLOBAL SOLUTIONS Corp. (Providence, R.I.).
"Lottery ticket vending machine" was invented by Medina Marie Topalian (East Greenwich, R.I.), Robert Corvese (Warwick, R.I.) and Paul A. Bucci (Glocester, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lottery ticket vending machine configured to obtain code image data (such as bar code image data) from a leading lottery ticket in each of the lottery drawers in the lottery ticket vending machine, and use the code image data for activating or verifying activation of the lottery tickets loaded in the ticket drawers. This expedites the ticket loading p...