ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,680, issued on July 7, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Digital amplitude noise shift keying to communicate information" was invented by Wayne Richard Howe (Irvine, Calif.) and Jeffrey H. Hunt (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and system for communicating information. A communications system comprises a computer system and a communications manager. The communications manager is in the computer system. The communications manager is configured to identify digital information for transmission. The communications manager is configured to transmit noise signals with different noise amplitudes...