ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,354, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to IGT Global Solutions Corp. (Providence, R.I.).
"Multi-step validation and redemption for digital lottery tickets" was invented by Zbigniew Brzozowski (Warsaw, Poland), Gregory J. Spatuzzi (Cranston, R.I.) and Thomas K. Oram (Hudson, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for facilitating the purchase of digital lottery tickets, the validation of digital lottery tickets, and the redemption of digital lottery tickets. The systems and methods provide improved security and protection against fraudulent validation and redemption of digital lottery tickets."
The patent was filed on...