ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,827, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to FREE SPEECH INC. (Dover, Del.).
"Systems and/or methods for targeted opinion polling with anonymity" was invented by Alexander Graeme Thomson (Bethesda, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present technology provide a platform for verified-anonymous community polling and referenda. The platform registers users, interfaces with external identity-verification services to confirm identity and eligibility attributes (e.g., geography, age, affiliation), and issues non-reversible participation tokens unlinkable to identity. Authorized creators (including elected officials) define commu...