US Patent Issued to Blackhawk Network on July 28 for "Mobile point of sale application for redemption of game winnings" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,761, issued on July 28, was assigned to Blackhawk Network Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Mobile point of sale application for redemption of game winnings" was invented by Richard Alan Gotlieb (Alamo, Calif.), Prashant Nedungadi (San Jose, Calif.), Melissa Murillo (Tracy, Calif.), Ryan Koop (Dover Centre, Canada), Gino Giunti (Sault Ste. Marie, Canada) and Vipin Das Anantha Mohandas (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for converting a redeemable winnings voucher into customer-useable value comprising: a processor comprising a computer-readable medium storing mobile point of sale application instructions configured...