ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,986, issued on March 24, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Reliable efficient flooding with Doppler nulling (spatial awareness)" was invented by Tj T. Kwon (Marion, Iowa), William B. Sorsby (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Eric J. Loren (North Liberty, Iowa) and James A Stevens (Lucas, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed. The system may include a receiver or transmitter node. The receiver or transmitter node may include a communications interface with an antenna element. A controller may include one or more processors and have information of own node velocity and own node orientation relative t...