ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,123, issued on March 24, was assigned to Global Tel*Link Corp. (Reston, Va.).

"Systems and methods for product ordering and delivery for inmates" was invented by Stephen Lee Hodge (Aubrey, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system that includes an order processing subsystem and a delivery processing subsystem comprising at least one database and one or more processors. The one or more processors of the delivery processing subsystem is configured to receive a request for a user to access the delivery processing subsystem and a scanning device, authenticate the user by verifying the request with user credential...