ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,757, issued on July 21, was assigned to Brightstar Global Solutions Corp. (Providence, R.I.).
"Lottery ticket vending machine" was invented by Robert Corvese (Warwick, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lottery ticket vending machine including a housing, a ticket drawer column in the housing, the ticket drawer column including a plurality of ticket drawers, each of the ticket drawers configured to hold one or more packs of lottery tickets, and a ticket burster in the housing, the ticket burster defining a ticket inlet and a ticket outlet, the ticket burster movable to a plurality of different ticket receipt positions, each differe...