ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,032, issued on June 2, was assigned to Jackpocket LLC (New York).

"Roller scraper for scraping physical media elements" was invented by Eric Parker (Wellington, Fla.), Redza Shah (Austin, Texas) and James Mansour (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for mechanically processing physical media elements, e.g., automatically scratching scratch-off lottery tickets, may include receiving a batch of tickets at an input chute of a scratching system. Tickets may be serially fed through the scratching system that includes a series of roller scratching mechanisms. Pressure rollers may be individually adjustable to se...