US Patent Issued to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Dec. 16 for "Robust election logic and accuracy" (Michigan, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,922, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Robust election logic and accuracy" was invented by Braden L. Crimmins (Ann Arbor, Mich.), John Alexander Halderman (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Bradley Sturt (Urbana, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transposition error may occur in a voting machine when the voting machine switches candidates so that votes are counted for a different candidates than a voter intended. Such transposition errors may occur due to either intentional manipulation (e.g., a bad actor hacking...