US Patent Issued to NEC on Feb. 24 for "Electronic voting system, electronic voting method, and electronic voting program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,016, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electronic voting system, electronic voting method, and electronic voting program" was invented by Shinjiro Yagi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic voting system that transmits and receives data to and from an electronic voting terminal(s) with which a voter(s) performs electronic voting includes: a voting right management apparatus that issues a voting ID(s) to the voter(s) based on a voter list; a voting processing apparatus that receives, from the electronic voting terminal(s), electronic voting information in which an electronic signature(s) is attached ...