ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,691, issued on March 24, was assigned to Thales Avionics Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Inflight entertainment system providing security for mobile peripheral devices onboard aircraft" was invented by Kevin Judd (Irvine, Calif.), Ton Do (Corona, Calif.) and Michail Reznik (San Clemente, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle entertainment system includes a content server and a peripheral manager. The content server establishes communication connections through at least one communication network with mobile peripherals providing vehicle entertainment services to passengers, and routes entertainment content to the mobile peripherals...