ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,783, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Global Tel*Link Corp. (Reston, Va.).

"Third party monitoring of activity within a monitoring platform" was invented by Stephen Lee Hodge (Aubrey, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a monitoring environment that monitors an activity for activity that may be indicative of being prohibited by the local, the state, and/or the national governing authorities, namely suspicious activity, or activity that is prohibited by the local, the state, and/or the national governing authorities, namely prohibited activity. The monitoring environment verifies the activity is act...