ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,326, issued on May 12, was assigned to L3Harris Technologies Inc. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Remote power control box" was invented by Brandon J. Miller (Greenville, Texas), Roy Mark Osborn (Alba, Texas) and Khanh Vo (Garland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises: a case enclosing a space; a power connector, extending through the case, to be connected to an external device; a power switch, retained in the space, and configured to be controlled responsive to commands in a UHF/VHF radio signal received by the power switch; a battery, retained in the space, having battery terminals connected to the power connector such th...