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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8177136 | Embedded optical signatures in documents A method of embedding an optical signature in a document and document produced therefrom. The optical signature uses an invisible optical pattern or covering that can reflect light in non-visible wavelengths, such as light in infrared, or fluoresces when exposed to ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8109513 | Lottery game played on a geometric figure using indicia with variable point values A system, method and lottery ticket that implement a lottery game that uses a geometric figure having a plurality of selection spaces from which a player selects at least one selection space. The selection spaces are then populated with one or more game indicia, wit... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8083583 | Method and system for managing probability of an outcome in a random generation event An online lottery game system and methodology involves, for each play of the game, a player choosing a number of player indicia from a field of the indicia. A subset of the indicia is randomly generated, and the player's indicia is compared to the subset to determin... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8075387 | Multiplier for lottery game An improved multiplier for a lottery game is provided. In connection with a base lottery game, each player receives or selects a multiplier indicia (or other bonus indicia) from a pool of multiplier indicia. In addition to drawings for the base game, a drawing of mu... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8056900 | Grid-based lottery game and associated system A method and associated system for hosting a lottery game includes designating a plurality of game player positions on a predetermined grid presented to the player on a play slip, the game player positions defining a pathway on the grid. The pathway includes the pla... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8055901 | Optical signature to enable image correction A method and system for performing document image correction using a document reader is disclosed. The method includes generating a document image representative of a document having a deformation; decoding an optical pattern embedded in the document from the docume... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8043154 | Lottery ticket security method In a method for manufacturing instant lottery tickets where book numbers and ticket numbers are printed on the tickets utilizing a dual security process such that the book numbers are shuffled in each pool before the tickets are printed to break the link between the... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8033905 | Preprinted lottery tickets using a player activated electronic validation machine A lottery game played on an electronic game machine using a pre-printed lottery ticket is disclosed. The lottery ticket is embedded with game and prize information that can be read by the game machine. After inserting the lottery ticket into the game machine, the pl... | 10/11/2011 |
| 7980937 | Lottery audit system In an instant lottery ticket system having a lottery administration host computer that includes a ticket validation file, security of the validation file is provided by an audit system that allows periodic audits of the validation file. Audit data, based on ticket d... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7959503 | Game apparatus Described is a player activated game system, particularly adapted for playing instant lottery type games, that includes a game device having a computer containing at least one game, an electronic display and a card interface adapted to receive a game card having dat... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7959188 | Lottery ticket having matched indicia grid with row and column win indicators A scratch off lottery game card is that includes a substrate on which a plurality of game indicia printed on a game indicia area in an M×N matrix and a plurality of player indicia printed on a player indicia area. The game indicia are preferably grouped by differen... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7885851 | Retailer optimization using market segmentation top quintile process A method for determining an optimal number of lottery retailers is disclosed. The optimal number of lottery retailers for a region can be determined based households of the same segmentations purchasing lottery products similarly, and there is a strong correlation b... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7883405 | Lottery and gaming systems with multi-theme instant win games In one aspect, the invention is directed to a method of conducting an instant win game in combination with a base wagering game. The method may include receiving a base wagering game entry and a base wagering game wager from a player, and receiving an instant win ga... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7883092 | Energy cured coating An energy cured coating is described that may be used in numerous applications. In one embodiment, for instance, the coating can be used as a seal coat layer in a gaming card. In particular, the coating can be used to protect a hidden printed layer that is covered b... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7846016 | Lottery game with interactive game indicia selection An interactive game in which a player and a gaming organization are each assigned game indicia. The game includes identifying a first game indicia selected by the game player with a first game indicia selected by the gaming organization thereafter, whereupon the pla... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7878895 | Methods and apparatus for providing a lottery game A gaming apparatus and method of play including a value input device and a controller operatively coupled to the value input device. The controller receives wager data in response to a wager made by a person on a game, with the wager data including a first plurality... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7837117 | Embedded optical signatures in documents A method of embedding an optical signature in a document and document produced therefrom. The optical signature uses an invisible optical pattern or covering that can reflect light in non-visible wavelengths, such as light in infrared, or fluoresces when exposed to ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7824257 | On-line lottery game in which supplemental lottery-selected indicia are available for purchase There is provided a lottery game with a supplemental game. The player plays the lottery game by selecting a plurality of numbers and the player also has the option of playing the supplemental game. The lottery authority selects a set of winning numbers for the lotte... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7819738 | Lottery game based on letter puzzles A system and method for a lottery game. The game includes a plurality of puzzles, where each puzzle is a concatenation of characters including letters, wherein some characters are missing from each puzzle. A player selects a set of characters from a predefined set o... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7798895 | Lottery and gaming systems for playing wagering game with enhanced prize structure derived from multiple plays In one aspect, the invention is directed to a method for conducting a wagering game that may include receiving player input corresponding to at least one first entry for a player for at least one occurrence of the wagering game, randomly selecting a supplemental ent... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7788482 | System and method for securing on-line documents using authentication codes A system method for providing an authentication code across a network for use in authentication of documents, such as printed lottery tickets. The system includes document-printing terminals that create a first key and a second key, with the first key used to genera... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7785184 | Computer-implemented simulated card game A monitor-based Texas Hold'em Poker game, where a plurality of game entries are displayed to a player and each game entry is associated with a winning odds and potential payout. After the player places a wager on one of the game entries, the system generates a set o... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7766740 | Methods and apparatus for providing a lottery game A gaming apparatus and method of play including a value input device and a controller operatively coupled to the value input device. The controller receives wager data in response to a wager made by a person on a game, with the wager data including a first plurality... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7726652 | Lottery game played on a geometric figure using indicia with variable point values A system, method and lottery ticket that implement a lottery game that uses a geometric figure having a plurality of selection spaces from which a player selects at least one selection space. The selection spaces are then populated with one or more game indicia, wit... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7699314 | Lottery game utilizing nostalgic game themes A method for hosting and playing a lottery game using nostalgic game themes. The lottery game, in one embodiment emulating Pac-Man®, comprises a player selecting a path on a grid, and a lottery populating the path with numbers either generated randomly or selected ... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7674169 | Random animated lottery system A lottery system graphically portraying a lottery result in animation is provided. The lottery system includes a game generator which comprises a random number generator and an animation drawing subsystem. The random number generator randomly selects a lottery resul... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7665732 | Lottery game card with thermal ink to highlight game indicia A scratch off lottery game card including a substrate on which a plurality of game indicia are printed on the substrate and a layer of translucent thermal ink coating is placed upon the lottery game card covering the game indicia. The translucent thermal ink coating... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7665400 | Print monitoring system and method A print monitoring system comprising a printer that generates a printed object that comprises a) a printed area located on a substrate, the printed area having a predetermined width and defining a two-dimensional matrix having a plurality of rows and a plurality of ... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7662038 | Multi-matrix lottery The invention is a system and method for hosting a multi-matrix game where a player makes selection from two matrices and the winning numbers are also drawn from these two matrices. Matches are allowed between the player's selection from one matrix and the winning n... | 02/16/2010 |
| 7654529 | Combination scratch ticket and on-line game ticket A system and method for implementing a secondary lottery game with a first instant lottery game in an instant lottery game ticket is disclosed. The player purchases an instant lottery game, where chances for winning instant prizes are provided to the player. The pla... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7631871 | Lottery game based on combining player selections with lottery draws to select objects from a third set of indicia A system and method for implementing a lottery game that correlates a first and second sequence of indicia, such as by pairing each term in the first sequence with the term in the second sequence in the same relative position. The correlation is subsequently mapped ... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7621814 | Media enhanced gaming system An integrated group of systems, processes, and controls that enable real-time/near real-time media (video and audio) enhancement and capabilities in a gaming environment. Media from a variety of sources may be streamed or pushed to either individual gaming terminal ... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7601059 | Word-based lottery game A method for hosting a word-based lottery game having a plurality of players is disclosed. A player selects a plurality of cells from a playslip and these cells will be converted to a plurality of letters and symbols by a lottery game machine. The player will use th... | 10/13/2009 |
| D597138 | Retail ticket-vending terminal | 07/28/2009 |
| D590450 | Lottery ticket game device | 04/14/2009 |
| 7510116 | Lottery and gaming systems with dynamic lottery tickets In one aspect, the invention is directed to a method for conducting a dynamic lottery game, and may include determining an opening entry for the player for the dynamic lottery game. The method may also include dispensing a dynamic lottery game ticket to the player, ... | 03/31/2009 |
| D589093 | Lottery ticket game device | 03/24/2009 |
| 7497778 | Lottery game based on words or phrases A word-based lottery game wherein a player buys a ticket with a word or set of words and may win a prize if the outcome of a draw confers a win status to one or more words in the ticket. The draw is a random process for which an outcome is a concatenation of charact... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7485037 | Fixed-odds sports lottery game The present invention relates to a sporting event based lottery game wherein the lottery game result depends on the performance of competitors in the sporting event and the prize determination process does not involve any comparison among the game tickets. The lotte... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7481431 | Bingo-style lottery game ticket A scratch-off lottery game card that simulates the rules of the game of Bingo. On the card, there is a first set of game indicia of a first type arranged in a grid that has at least one row of cells having a indicia of a second type with a unique one of the indicia ... | 01/27/2009 |
