ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,003, issued on May 19, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and apparatus for C2 communications security establishment, modification and revocation" was invented by Samir Ferdi (Kirkland, Canada), Alec Brusilovsky (Downingtown, Pa.), Michelle Perras (Montreal) and Guanzhou Wang (Brossard, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, architectures and interfaces for performing secure command control (C2) communications in an Unmanned Aerial System (CAS) including a UAV controller (UAV-C) are provided. The method includes on condition that the UAV has completed a registrati...