G07F 17/329
Regular and instant lottery
Official title: {Regular and instant lottery, e.g. electronic scratch cards}
G07F17/329 (Regular and instant lottery) appears on 1,517 US grants and 2,400 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G07F- Granted patents
- 1,517
- Published applications
- 2,400
- Assignees
- 469
- Inventors
- 2,159
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 47 | 92 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Dematerialized instant lottery ticket system and method6 Oct 2026US 12,755,614 B2Brightstar Global Solutions Corporation
- System and method for cashless redemption of lottery tickets and incentives for players to spend lottery winnings at specified third-party retail vendors6 Oct 2026US 12,755,615 B2Scientific Games, LLC
- Architectures, systems and methods having segregated secure and public functions29 Sep 2026US 12,748,979 B2Milestone Entertainment, LLC
- Systems and methods for overlaying game information29 Sep 2026US 12,749,367 B2Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
- Systems and methods for reconciling lottery transactions22 Sep 2026US 12,743,685 B2Walmart Apollo, LLC
- Lottery ticket storage and dispensing cassette8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311518 A1
- Lottery ticket vending machine8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311568 A1Brightstar Global Solutions Corporation
- Lottery ticket selling system having a code reader assembly that reads the codes printed on draw lottery tickets by a draw lottery ticket printer1 Oct 2026US 2026/0300659 A1Brightstar Global Solutions Corporation
- Shared promotional/monetary bingo system24 Sep 2026US 2026/0290121 A1Roxor Gaming Limited
- Shared promotional/monetary bingo system24 Sep 2026US 2026/0290131 A1Roxor Gaming Limited
Most cited
By later US patents
- Touch screen video gaming machine1,268US 5,342,047 ABally Gaming International, Inc. · 1994
- Off-line remote system for lotteries and games of skill938US 5,871,398 AWalker Asset Management Limited Partnership · 1999
- Automatic lottery system775US 4,494,197 A1985
- Video lottery system with improved site controller and validation unit622US 5,398,932 AVideo Lottery Technologies, Inc. · 1995
- Authentication of lottery tickets, game machine credit vouchers, and other items585US 8,135,648 B2GTECH Corporation · 2012