US Patent Issued to Clear Ballot Group on Dec. 2 for "Low profile apparatus for ballot tabulation and imprinting of unique identifiers" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,647, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Clear Ballot Group Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).

"Low profile apparatus for ballot tabulation and imprinting of unique identifiers" was invented by Lucas Gruner (Boston), Simon Jarvis (Middleton, Mass.), Adam Meunier (Cumberland, R.I.), Helen Michaud (Wakefield, Mass.), Michael Papa (Windham, N.H.), Savio Polini (Boston) and Charles Trowbridge (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and method for implementing a low-profile tabulator. An example apparatus includes scanning optics and an imprinter positioned along a paper path. A ballot is scanned with the scanning optics to obtain a digital image...