ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,741, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to AS0001 Inc. (Carmel, Ind.).

"Systems and methods for secure voting with zero-knowledge proofs and tokens" was invented by Jonathan J. Thompson (Carmel, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for protecting data. A data protection system can include one or more processing circuits including memory and at least one processor configured to register an entity or user for voting based on issuing an eligibility token corresponding with the entity or user, receive, responsive to registering, a casting token including a vote of the entity or user and a...