ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,911, issued on March 3, was assigned to Honeywell International Inc. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems, devices, and methods for data transmission" was invented by Somashekhar Hosamane (Bangalore, India), Vadiraja Gopady Krishna Upadya (Bangalore, India), Sudheendra K N (Bangalore, India) and Deepak Kumar J (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may comprise a plurality of subsystems, each including an encoder, a transmitter configured to transmit ultrasonic signals, a receiver configured to receive ultrasonic signals, and a local memory. Each subsystem may be configured to: encrypt data relating to first subsystem statu...