ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,778, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to CONFINEMENT TELEPHONY TECHNOLOGY LLC (Greensboro, N.C.).

"Electronic briefcases for inmate documents" was invented by John Vincent Townsend III (Kernersville, N.C.), Timothy Edwin Pabon (Greensboro, N.C.), Rick Allen Lubbehusen (Winston Salem, N.C.) and Eugene B. Joswick III (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations disclosed herein provide systems and methods that use an inmate-accessible electronic briefcase to facilitate an inmate's organization of significant content, such as video recording content. Electronic documents are created and stored in an organized docume...