Patents Assigned to IGT Global Solutions Corporation
  • Patent number: 12283154
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling secure automated production and redemption of predetermined games of chance with multiple play venues or dimensions, wherein such systems and methods can provide, for example, lottery games (e.g., instant tickets), charitable gaming (e.g., raffles, pull-tabs), casino environments (e.g., “Class II” gaming), Internet gaming (e.g., poker, online instant tickets), etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: IGT GLOBAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeffrey Schertzer, Bruce Coffman, Kenneth E. Irwin, Jr., David Knechtges
  • Patent number: 12236741
    Abstract: An enhanced lottery media representation object such as a ticket, for example, permits a user to access certain desirable features using a communications device. In embodiments of the present invention, an improved physical lottery ticket is provided with one or more icons, such as code elements or graphic patterns, thereupon to enable a user with a properly enabled device to detect, such as by scanning or photographing the icon, or by maintaining the icon within a field of view, one or more of the icons to reveal one or more enhanced experiences via the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: IGT Global Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: James C. Barnes
  • Patent number: 12229754
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enabling the secure use of cryptocurrencies (such as but not limited to Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Litecoin) in prize funds or gift cards that accept purchases or wagers in fiat currencies and payout in cryptocurrency. The prize funds can be associated with lotteries, charitable gaming, or casino environments with the inherent volatility of cryptocurrencies optionally mitigated and cryptocurrency payouts enabled for consumers or players without prior digital wallets as well as consumers or players with preexisting digital wallets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: IGT GLOBAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenneth Irwin, Jr., Brian Keith Cash, Michael Louis Polito
  • Patent number: 12214287
    Abstract: Security-enhanced documents and methods of forming security-enhanced documents having indicia under a Scratch-Off Coating (SOC), and more particularly including digitally imaging video frames onto the display area and/or back of the documents. In certain embodiments, portions of digitally imaged video frames are also utilized as game play variable indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: IGT GLOBAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kenneth E. Irwin, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12214611
    Abstract: A full-color protected document, and methods and systems for making same, secured by a removable Scratch-Off Coating, where the protection against document alteration and/or copy type attacks is provided by digitally imaging Benday patterns and/or digital imaged background patterns around the variable indicia. By printing Benday patterns and/or imaged background using the same process color imagers, usability and integrity of the protected document are achieved relative to the consumer's perspective while at the same time providing a more secure, less expensive, and more aesthetically pleasing document design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: IGT GLOBAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph Brandimore, Kenneth E. Irwin, Jr., Amy Kathleen Pettis
  • Patent number: 12211354
    Abstract: A system and method for facilitating the purchase of digital lottery tickets, the validation of digital lottery tickets, and the redemption of digital lottery tickets. The systems and methods provide improved security and protection against fraudulent validation and redemption of digital lottery tickets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: IGT Global Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Zbigniew Brzozowski, Gregory J. Spatuzzi, Thomas K. Oram
  • Patent number: 12201913
    Abstract: A system and method for providing instant games in both physical scratch-off and virtual forms wherein at least a portion of the winning value of the instant game is determined by a plurality of planar layers with the concordance of the planar layers determining value enhancements. The distribution and composition of the concordance of the plurality of planar layers is configured to ensure compliance with a predetermined prize outcome prize fund.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: IGT Global Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony Lucci, Kenneth E. Irwin, Jr., Jeffrey Schertzer
  • Patent number: 12190684
    Abstract: A lottery gaming system and method providing a lottery ticket with a pre-draw cash-in amount based on the player symbols of the lottery ticket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: IGT Global Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Bradford Heathcote, Aaron Michael Koll, Sarah Simpkins
  • Patent number: 12190687
    Abstract: A lottery ticket dispensing system including a lottery ticket vending machine and a lottery ticket vending machine side car including a housing, a physical connection assembly, an electrical connection and communication assembly, and at least one of a paper bet slip receiver assembly, a currency receiver assembly, and a coin receiver assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: IGT Global Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Apostolos D. Kallis
  • Patent number: 12142115
    Abstract: A system, apparatus and method are presented for facilitating remote wager communications using mobile communications devices while the devices are within range of an authorized lottery transaction device. In various embodiments, lottery transaction devices are equipped with multiple Bluetooth-enabled transceivers, a lottery server manages identifiers associated with the transceivers at each lottery transaction device, and issues an identifier of an available transceiver to a requesting mobile communications device at the time the mobile device desires to consummate a player's desired transaction. Portions of the desired transaction can be communicated to the lottery server separately from the Bluetooth network to limit the time spent by a mobile device communicating directly with the Bluetooth-enabled lottery transaction device. In various embodiments, the mobile device issues a disconnect call to the lottery transaction device directly after the desired lottery transaction has been communicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: IGT Global Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Jesse Saccoccio, Mark Truman
  • Patent number: 12112602
    Abstract: Lottery tickets and lottery gaming systems and methods providing such lottery tickets, wherein the lottery tickets each have a connected symbol set feature including a plurality of connected symbol sets, a plurality of player symbols, and potential awards that can be won based on the connected symbol sets and the player symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: IGT Global Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Amy Morin, Patricia Schmidt, Derek Levesque, Xianfeng Shang, Sandra Carpenter
  • Patent number: 12106177
    Abstract: A lottery terminal that includes a housing, a display device pivotally connected to the housing, the display device upwardly pivotable from a closed position to a fully open position, and a lottery ticket play slip reader including a document mover and a scanner holder pivotally connected to the document mover, the scanner holder downwardly pivotal from a closed position to a fully open position to provide full, easy, and quick access to a scanner supported by the scanner holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: IGT Global Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Scott Hultzman, David Anagnostos
  • Patent number: 12086682
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices for automatically verifying the authenticity and integrity of documents such as but not limited to instant lottery tickets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: IGT Global Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth E. Irwin, Jr., Joseph Brandimore, Brian Ingram
  • Patent number: 12080132
    Abstract: An instant lottery ticket vending machine including a machine housing, a ticket pack holder positioned in the machine housing and including a plurality of ticket pack drawers that are each configured to hold a pack of instant lottery tickets, a ticket receptacle supported by the machine housing, and a ticket burster positioned in the machine housing, wherein the ticket burster movable into a plurality of different ticket receipt positions respectively associated with and in alignment with a different one of the ticket pack drawers, wherein in each ticket receipt position, the ticket burster is configured to receive from the ticket pack drawer associated with that ticket receipt position an instant lottery ticket attached to a next instant lottery ticket, and wherein the ticket burster is configured to separate the instant lottery ticket from the next instant lottery ticket and dispense the instant lottery ticket into the ticket receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: IGT Global Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Medina Marie Topalian, Paul A. Bucci, Henry Constant
  • Patent number: 12036480
    Abstract: A lottery ticket, and a lottery gaming system and method providing a lottery ticket, including a plurality of separate player symbol zones on the substrate, each player symbol zone including a plurality of player first symbols, a plurality of award symbols respectively associated with the plurality of player first symbols, and a player bonus award symbol; a plurality of winning symbols on the substrate; a first removable covering on the substrate covering the plurality of player symbol zones; and a second removable covering on the substrate covering the plurality of winning symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: IGT Global Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony Lucci, Jeffrey Schertzer
  • Patent number: 11983997
    Abstract: A lottery gaming system that enables a player to select any one of a plurality of different geographic areas in which they predict that a designated winning lottery ticket will be purchased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: IGT Global Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Bradford Heathcote, Aaron Michael Koll, Sarah Simpkins
  • Patent number: 11944913
    Abstract: A printed security-enhanced document, printing method, and system for ensuring that any printing defects present in the variable indicia also occur in the background on the document protected. By ensuring that random printing defects in the variable indicia also appear in the same document's background, detection of the printing defects becomes more readily apparent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: IGT Global Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth E. Irwin, Jr., Brian Ingram
  • Patent number: D1017704
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: IGT Global Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony Lucci, Jeffrey Schertzer
  • Patent number: D1064086
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: IGT GLOBAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anthony Lucci, Jeffrey Schertzer
  • Patent number: D1070993
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: IGT GLOBAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Scott Hultzman