US Patent Issued to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Dec. 2 for "Single-ballot logic and accuracy testing" (Illinois, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,646, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The following relates generally to error detection in voting systems, and, in particular voting systems using optical scan machines. In some embodiments, one or more processors are configured to: (1) capture, with an optical scan machine, original image data; (2) isola...