MUMBAI, India, Jan. 2 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202541122970 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, on Dec. 5, 2025, for 'blockchain-based secure voting system with zero-knowledge proof authentication.'

Inventor(s) include A Anny Leema; P Balakrishnan; Saara Sharma; Ammey Paathak; and Shreyas Mohan.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 2, under issue no. 01/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present disclosure provides a blockchain-based secure voting method (100) that registers (104) eligible voters using decentralized identity mechanisms that store voter credentials without relying on centralized databases,...