US Patent Issued to The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security on Oct. 14 for "Voter identification using mobile identification credential" (Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,261, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security (Washington).

"Voter identification using mobile identification credential" was invented by Daniel A. Boyd (Arlington, Va.), Kelli L Biegger (McLean, Va.), Chang Ellison (Arlington, Va.), Brandon P. Gutierrez (Burke, Va.), Jason Lim (Alexandria, Va.), William Washington (North Potomac, Md.), Arun Vemury (North Bethesda, Md.) and Nathan Grebasch (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a method includes receiving, by an election office system from a voter device, a request for a v...