US Patent Issued to Global Tel*Link on July 22 for "Variable-step authentication for communications in controlled environment" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,709, issued on July 22, was assigned to Global Tel*Link Corp. (Reston, Va.).

"Variable-step authentication for communications in controlled environment" was invented by Stephen L. Hodge (Aubrey, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A variable-step authentication system and a method for operating for performing variable-step authentication for communications in a controlled environment is disclosed. The variable-step authentication system may include a communication device and a server. The variable-step method includes steps for determining an authentication process that involves a number of authentication steps. The number of authen...