US Patent Issued to Scientific Games on Oct. 6 for "System and method for cashless redemption of lottery tickets and incentives for players to spend lottery winnings at specified third-party retail vendors" (Georgia, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,615, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Scientific Games LLC (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"System and method for cashless redemption of lottery tickets and incentives for players to spend lottery winnings at specified third-party retail vendors" was invented by Joseph Corry Fulton (Cumming, Ga.), Aaron Kelly Waldron (Boca Raton, Fla.) and O'ryan Anderson (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method enable redemption of lottery tickets by players in a lottery game wherein the players are encouraged to visit and spend winnings at a third-party vendor establishment. The lottery tickets have indicia thereon that identifies one of...