ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,897, issued on March 24, was assigned to Jackpocket LLC (Boston).

"Feed path for a roller scraper system" was invented by Eric Parker (Wellington, Fla.), Redza Shah (Austin, Texas), James Mansour (Austin, Texas), Milan Smart (Austin, Texas) and Cameron Navarre (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. Pre...