ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,195, issued on July 29, was assigned to Epic Tech LLC (Suwanee, Ga.).

"Random draw game system and method" was invented by Brendan Mullins (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Scott Vollmer (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for consecutive play of a random draw game in which a generated random sequence of game symbols in a pool of game symbols is used for matching one-by-one with a game card having a predetermined number of the game symbols generated randomly from the pool for each consecutive play of the game, with a prize awarded if the game card matches a predetermine set of the game symbols in the sequence. The system includ...