ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,196, issued on June 30, was assigned to L3Harris Global Communications Inc. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Systems and methods for radio configuration and validation" was invented by Brent Josefiak (Rochester, N.Y.) and Daniel Harris (Rochester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for re-configuring radios. The methods comprise: obtaining a machine-readable code by a mobile communication device from a first radio of the plurality of radios, the machine-readable code based on first digital configuration data for the first radio, the digital configuration data comprising at least one of an operational frequency, a time, a band...