ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,728, issued on July 22, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).

"System and method for determining voter eligibilty and facilitating secure electronic voting" was invented by Kenneth Falor (Carrollton, Texas), Adam Belvin (Cypress, Texas), Sebastian Cassano (Capital Federal, Ark.), Mohammed Aijaaz (Secunderabad, Ind.) and James Templet (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a determination of voter eligibility and facilitation of secure electronic voting is provided. The method includes authenticating a voter according to security setting and displaying a voting page for a jurisdiction corre...