ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,256, issued on June 23, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"System and method for networking and internet protocol security (IPSec) measures for mobile ad hoc network (MANET) waveforms" was invented by James A Stevens (Lucas, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node of a network communicating via mobile ad hoc network (MANET) waveforms and incorporating internet protocol (IP) security (IPSec) measures includes a plaintext (PT) user system or host, ciphertext (CT) communications module including a radio system for transmission and reception via MANET waveforms, IPSec cryptographic units, and PT and CT conve...