ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,817, issued on April 7, was assigned to The Texas A&M University System (College Station, Texas).
"Secure remote controls package for semi-autonomous systems" was invented by Daniel Watson (College Station, Texas) and Pavel Tsvetkov (College Station, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A secure system for sending and receiving remote signals that control semiautonomous critical systems and infrastructure. The secure system includes a plurality of independent operator stations to provide command signals to the remote critical systems and infrastructure by means of wired and/or wireless communications. Decoupling of the secure system ...