ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,134, issued on April 22.
"System and method for reliable opinion polls" was invented by David Lane Smith (Bryan, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of reliable polling of an authenticated population of participants using network connected computing devices for the purpose of collecting and reporting verifiable opinions in an election, including, but not limited to, granting participants the right to participate in the election, collecting answers to one or more ballot questions from authenticated participants, using one or more blinded authorizations to submit participant answers to ballot questions, and accumula...