ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,780, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to General Dynamics Mission Systems Inc. (Fairfax, Va.).

"Two person control where both parties are geographically distributed" was invented by Reuben S. Fischman (Rehoboth, Mass.), Bonha Koo (Cambridge, Mass.), Elzabeth Butler (North Easton, Mass.) and Stephanie Saariaho (Bridgewater, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Two party computer access control including a network interface for receiving, an initiate message including a first label, a first payload and a first internet protocol address and for receiving a control message including a second label, a second payload and a second internet...