ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,536, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Hosted payload operations with secured independent communications utilizing a multi-frequency host in-band ground antenna" was invented by Yi-Feng J. Chen (Irvine, Calif.) and Robert J. Winig (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatus for secured independent hosted payload operations are disclosed. A system may include a hosted payload operations center (HOC) controlling operations of a hosted payload on a vehicle. The HOC transmits encrypted hosted commands to the vehicle via a hosted command (CMD) path. The veh...