ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,544, issued on Sept. 2.

"Zero-trust distributed voting system" was invented by Brandon Hart (Jacksonville, Fla.), Courtney Roach (Jacksonville, Fla.) and Cedric Harris (Jacksonville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for an automated zero-trust distributed voting and vote management based on protected voter-related data, including a processor of a vote management server node connected over a blockchain network to at least one user device onboarded onto the blockchain and a memory on which are stored machine-readable instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: acquire live biometrics data from ...