ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,902, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Radio frequency (RF) communications system having RF nodes that reacquire synchronization lock on spatially diverse, redundant data channels" was invented by Brent A. Kenney (Bountiful, Utah), Jeffrey B. Bench (Lehi, Utah), Marc A. Padilla (Farmington, Utah) and Nicholas T. Yaskoff (Park City, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radio frequency (RF) communications system may include a first RF node that transmits redundant data channels on different RF spatial paths and transmits a control channel for synchronization lock with at least one other RF...