ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,417, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. (Falls Church, Va.).

"System and method to communicate using a secure obfuscated network" was invented by Marlon E. Marquez (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Darren R. Gregoire (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Prakash Sarathy (Redondo Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual-mode communication device adapted for communication over a public network, wherein the dual-mode communication device is adapted to be operated in a normal mode and in an obfuscated mode. The dual-mode communication device includes a processor and a network interface device. The processor develop...