ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,400, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Scientific Games LLC (Alpharetta, Ga.).
"System and method for composing personalized scratch-off lottery tickets" was invented by Jeffrey D. Martineck Sr. (Johns Creek, Ga.) and Scott B. Garrison (Duluth, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instant lottery ticket game system includes a set of scratch-off lottery ticket blanks, each lottery ticket blank having a front face and a back face and a game play area on the front face with play indicia that presents a pre-determined game outcome, the play indicia covered by a scratch-off coating (SOC). A coating layer is applied over at least the g...