ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,849, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to AIRBUS DS SAS (Elancourt, France).

"Authentication service and certificate exchange protocol in wireless ad hoc networks" was invented by Thierry Deniaud (Montigny le Bretonneux, France) and Romain Carnus (Nanterre, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for protecting data transmission in an ad hoc network including nodes, each node including a private key, a public key and a certificate of the public key signed by a certification authority, the method including transmitting by the first node to the second node: a first message signed with the private key of the first node; a third mes...