ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,665, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SpiderOak Inc. (Lenexa, Kan.).

"Cryptographic flow-based security protocol for aerospace communication" was invented by Jonathan Andrew Crockett Moore (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A satellite receives, from a ground station, multiple first commands out-or-order for replicating a conflict-free replicated dataset at the satellite. An authority to access the conflict-free replicated dataset is retrievable from a block of a blockchain. The multiple first commands are reordered based on an ordering specified by a causal tree received from the ground station. A global state of the...