ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,347, issued on May 27, was assigned to SCA PROMOTIONS (Dallas).

"Method and system for producing N-tuple number sets for lottery submissions" was invented by Robert Hamman (Dallas) and Jay B Ross (Delran, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system which facilitate generation and submission of one or more lottery number entry combinations. The system consists of a smart device operated by a lottery player whereby, the smart device is downloaded with a lottery number generation application and the application is used by the lottery player to communicate via an internet connection to a central system. The central system inc...