ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,490, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Brightstar Global Solutions Corp. (Providence, R.I.).

"Lottery ticket selling systems and methods" was invented by Michael Roeygaard (Rome), Apostolos D. Kallis (Barrington, R.I.) and Paul Riley (East Greenwich, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lottery ticket selling system including a point-of-sale system and a lottery ticket vending machine, and methods employing such POS system and lottery ticket vending machine to enable the purchase and dispensing of lottery tickets."

The patent was filed on Feb. 17, 2023, under Application No. 18/170,866.

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