ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,529, issued on May 13, was assigned to Global Tel*Link Corp. (Reston, Va.).
"Secure forum facilitator in controlled environment" was invented by Stephen L. Hodge (Aubrey, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An forum facilitator device is provided that allows for a controlled environment to provide a secure forum for residents to provide communications to other registered users of the secure forum. The communications are provided through posts made in the secure forum and through other types of communications from the inmate such as but not limited to emails and text messages. The forum facilitator device operates the secure forum an...