US Patent Issued to CONFINEMENT TELEPHONY TECHNOLOGY on July 29 for "Inmate communication system with flexible video visitation scheduling" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,539, issued on July 29, was assigned to CONFINEMENT TELEPHONY TECHNOLOGY LLC (Greensboro, N.C.).

"Inmate communication system with flexible video visitation scheduling" was invented by Rick Allen Lubbehusen (Winston-Salem, N.C.), John Vincent Townsend III (Kernersville, N.C.), Timothy Edwin Pabon (Greensboro, N.C.) and Shannon Neil Simpson (Winston-Salem, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations enable an inmate communication session without requiring a call be accepted. An inmate initiates a request that is sent to a non-inmate. The request may request that the non-inmate participate in a future communication session...