ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,719, issued on April 21, was assigned to RTX Corp. (Farmington, Conn.).

"Architecture for high temperature radio frequency smart node" was invented by William Richard Shaw (Westbrook, Conn.), Joseph V. Mantese (Ellington, Conn.), Gurkan Gok (Milford, Conn.), Joseph Zacchio (Wethersfield, Conn.), Sharbel Elias Azzi (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.), Jonathan J. Gilson (West Hartford, Conn.), Coy B. Wood (Ellington, Conn.) and Andre M. Ajami (Henderson, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aircraft includes a communication system having a node and includes a method of operating the aircraft with the communication system. The communication ...