ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,246, issued on June 24, was assigned to PAYRANGE LLC (Portland, Ore.).
"System and method for digitally simulated ticket scratching" was invented by Paresh K. Patel (Camas, Wash.) and Michael Kitchen (Pompano Beach, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic user device is configured to obtain from an application server image data associated with a ticket having a scratching area, display a digital simulation of the scratching area of the ticket on a user interface; receive user-provided scratching input at an input module, and digitally simulate the scratching area of the ticket being scratched on the user interface in accord...