Patents Assigned to IGT Global Solutions Corporation
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Patent number: 12283154Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 5, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: IGT GLOBAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Jeffrey Schertzer, Bruce Coffman, Kenneth E. Irwin, Jr., David Knechtges
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Patent number: 12236741Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 12, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventor: James C. Barnes
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Patent number: 12229754Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 3, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: IGT GLOBAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Kenneth Irwin, Jr., Brian Keith Cash, Michael Louis Polito
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Patent number: 12214287Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 29, 2024Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: IGT GLOBAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventor: Kenneth E. Irwin, Jr.
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Patent number: 12214611Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 28, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: IGT GLOBAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Joseph Brandimore, Kenneth E. Irwin, Jr., Amy Kathleen Pettis
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Patent number: 12211354Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 16, 2023Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Zbigniew Brzozowski, Gregory J. Spatuzzi, Thomas K. Oram
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Patent number: 12201913Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 17, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Anthony Lucci, Kenneth E. Irwin, Jr., Jeffrey Schertzer
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Patent number: 12190684Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 13, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Bradford Heathcote, Aaron Michael Koll, Sarah Simpkins
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Patent number: 12190687Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 7, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventor: Apostolos D. Kallis
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Patent number: 12142115Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 2, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Jesse Saccoccio, Mark Truman
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Patent number: 12112602Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 8, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Amy Morin, Patricia Schmidt, Derek Levesque, Xianfeng Shang, Sandra Carpenter
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Patent number: 12106177Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 28, 2023Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Scott Hultzman, David Anagnostos
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Patent number: 12086682Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 7, 2024Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Kenneth E. Irwin, Jr., Joseph Brandimore, Brian Ingram
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Patent number: 12080132Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 14, 2022Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Medina Marie Topalian, Paul A. Bucci, Henry Constant
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Patent number: 12036480Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Anthony Lucci, Jeffrey Schertzer
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Patent number: 11983997Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 10, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Bradford Heathcote, Aaron Michael Koll, Sarah Simpkins
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Patent number: 11944913Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 10, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Kenneth E. Irwin, Jr., Brian Ingram
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Patent number: D1017704Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: IGT Global Solutions CorporationInventors: Anthony Lucci, Jeffrey Schertzer
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Patent number: D1064086Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: IGT GLOBAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Anthony Lucci, Jeffrey Schertzer
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Patent number: D1070993Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2023Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: IGT GLOBAL SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventor: Scott Hultzman