ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,826, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Global Tel*Link Corp. (Reston, Va.).
"Release monitoring through check-in and tethering system" was invented by Stephen L. Hodge (Aubrey, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A check-in and tethering system for monitoring persons such as released in court-ordered supervised programs and a method for operating such a system is disclosed. The system includes a tethered mobile device that provides a check-in procedure that requires a response from a user of the tethered mobile device in the form of at least one of a device identifier from a monitored tethered device attached to the user, a biometr...