ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,199, issued on May 19, was assigned to Brightstar Global Solutions Corp. (Providence, R.I.).
"Lottery ticket vending machine" was invented by Stewart Thoeni (Reno, Nev.), Paul A. Bucci (Glocester, R.I.), Thomas Quaranta (North Kingstown, R.I.), Wayne Forsey (Riverview, Canada) and Herminio Avila (North Stonington, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lottery ticket vending machine configured to determine if its ticket bursters are improperly separating the lottery tickets received from the ticket drawers of the ticket drawer columns, and to make one or more adjustments and/or alert an operator if its ticket bursters are improperly s...