ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,146, issued on March 25, was assigned to Global Tel*Link Corp. (Reston, Va.).

"Secure nonscheduled video visitation system" was invented by Stephen Lee Hodge (Aubrey, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are methods and systems in which the censorship and supervision tasks normally performed by secured facility personnel are augmented or automated entirely by a Secure Nonscheduled Video Visitation System. In embodiments, the Secure Nonscheduled Video Visitation System performs voice biometrics, speech recognition, non-verbal audio classification, fingerprint and other biometric authentication, image object classification, ...