ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,614, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Brightstar Global Solutions Corp. (Providence, R.I.).

"Dematerialized instant lottery ticket system and method" was invented by Gianluca Ragnoni (Rome), Emanuele Martire (Rome), Veniero Merlini (Rome), Fabrizio Battini (Rome) and Giuseppe Bianchi (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for facilitating an instant lottery game with both physical and virtual instant lottery tickets, and more particularly to a system and method for facilitating virtual instant lottery ticket creation, virtual instant lottery ticket selling, virtual instant lottery ticket transferring, virtual instan...