US Patent Issued to Brightstar Global Solutions on Sept. 1 for "Lottery ticket vending machine with random ticket selection related features" (Rhode Island, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,479, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Brightstar Global Solutions Corp. (Providence, R.I.).

"Lottery ticket vending machine with random ticket selection related features" was invented by Raymond Leland (Warwick, R.I.), Apostolos D. Kallis (Barrington, R.I.), Medina Marie Topalian (East Greenwich, R.I.) and Giancarlo Perrotta (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lottery ticket vending machine configured to determine a vending machine selected instant lottery ticket from available instant lottery tickets in a plurality of ticket drawers, cause a ticket burster to move to the ticket receipt position associated with the ticket...