US Patent Issued to Hart InterCivic on July 28 for "Detachable imprinter providing secure paper path between optical scanner and ballot box" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,740, issued on July 28, was assigned to Hart InterCivic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Detachable imprinter providing secure paper path between optical scanner and ballot box" was invented by James M. Canter (Austin, Texas), Lynn Simpson (Austin, Texas), Eugene Konovalenko (Austin, Texas), Viktor Partyshev (Austin, Texas), Scott Olds (Austin, Texas) and Ryan Whinery (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of systems and methods are disclosed herein to print a unique identifier on a printed election sheet, wherein the printed election sheet includes a voter's voting selections in an election. More specifically, the present d...