ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,185, issued on Sept. 9.
"Automated aggregation and tracking of voter stances on issues and candidate records" was invented by David James Stewart (Zephyr Cove, Nev.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and associated methods are provided that are intended to be used by citizens to record their stances on relevant issues in a permanent distributed ledger, to organize these stances into non-personally identifiable aggregations to demonstrate the collective stance of a group of citizens and their priority ranking for several issues, and use this information regarding stances to identify alignment or misalignment between a candidate ...