ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,965, issued on July 1, was assigned to Hank Technology LLC (Sioux Falls, S.D.).

"Inmate information communication systems" was invented by Dave W. Hangsleben (Sioux Falls, S.D.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A penal facility communication system can include wireless devices configured to permit wireless communication within a penal facility between a first subset of the wireless devices configured as wireless management devices and a second subset of the wireless devices configured as wireless inmate devices."

The patent was filed on Feb. 10, 2022, under Application No. 17/668,679.

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