ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,509, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Brightstar Global Solutions Corp. (Providence, R.I.).
"Object based screening of scratch-off protected documents" was invented by Hector Da Silva Elias (Pasco, Fla.), Crystal Dawn Fulton (Tampa, Fla.) and Anthony Joseph Mazzullo Jr. (Seffner, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Documents (such as but not limited to lottery tickets), systems for manufacturing documents (such as but not limited to lottery tickets), and methods for manufacturing documents (such as but not limited to lottery tickets), wherein the document (such as an instant lottery ticket) that has a consistent overprint that cove...