ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,922, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Brightstar Global Solutions Corp. (Providence, R.I.).

"Lottery tickets having multiple combinations of boards and player symbol sets" was invented by Marc Mendoza (Winter Haven, Fla.), David Stark (Lakeland, Fla.), Joy Barbee (Lakeland, Fla.) and Kary Hacker (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lottery tickets and lottery gaming systems and methods providing such lottery tickets, wherein the lottery tickets each have multiple combinations of boards and player symbol sets, wherein each of the multiple combinations includes two different boards and one player symbol set for both boards, a...