ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,388, issued on June 2, was assigned to Brightstar Global Solutions Corp. (Providence, R.I.).
"Lottery ticket vending machine" was invented by Paul A. Bucci (Glocester, R.I.) and Stewart Thoeni (Reno, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lottery ticket vending machine configured to determine, for each of a plurality of ticket drawers, if lottery tickets are in the ticket drawer, and to take one or more actions based on such determinations."
The patent was filed on Aug. 3, 2023, under Application No. 18/364,553.
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