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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2026
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2023
Brightstar Global Solutions Corporation, Providence, RI (US);
Stewart Thoeni, Reno, NV (US);
Paul A. Bucci, Glocester, RI (US);
Thomas Quaranta, North Kingstown, RI (US);
Wayne Forsey, Riverview, CA;
Brightstar Global Solutions Corporation, Providence, RI (US);
Abstract
A lottery ticket vending machine configured to determine if its ticket bursters are improperly separating the lottery tickets received from the ticket drawers of the ticket drawer columns, and to make one or more adjustments and/or alert an operator if its ticket bursters are improperly separating the lottery tickets. In various embodiments, each of the tickets bursters includes a suitable burster mark former configured to create a burster mark in or on each lottery ticket received by the burster and a suitable burster mark sensor configured to sense at least one burster mark of each lottery ticket received by such burster. In various embodiments, the lottery ticket vending machine includes one or more controllers configured to receive signals from the burster mark sensor and make such determinations regarding any adjustments and/or alerts, and to cause any such adjustments and/or alerts.