US Patent Issued to CONFINEMENT TELEPHONY TECHNOLOGY on July 21 for "Methods and systems for charging and monitoring electronic devices in confinement institutions" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,273, issued on July 21, was assigned to CONFINEMENT TELEPHONY TECHNOLOGY LLC (Greensboro, N.C.).

"Methods and systems for charging and monitoring electronic devices in confinement institutions" was invented by John Vincent Townsend III (Kernersville, N.C.), Rick Allen Lubbehusen (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Jeffrey Adam Livaudais (Summerfield, N.C.), Timothy Edwin Pabon (Greensboro, N.C.), Johnnie Richard Tayloe (Rural Hall, N.C.), Nathan Robert Fisher (Hickory, N.C.), John Kyle Townsend (Kernersville, N.C.) and Franklin Wayne Harrelson Jr. (Greensboro, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations disclosed herein provide a charging...