ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,413, issued on July 8.

"Method and device for absentee voting" was invented by Abdelhakim Djoudi (Montpellier, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The postal voting method (30) includes: a step (31) of connecting a user terminal to a first server, a step (32) of authenticating the user of the user terminal by the first server, and associating a single voting number to the user, a step (33) of storing by a second server, the user's voting number, a step (34) of transmitting, by the second server to the user terminal, a ballot validation code, a step (36) of registering, by the user terminal in an electronic label, information represe...