ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,971, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TOC Solutions Inc. (Edmond, Okla.).

"Ruggedized voice and data communications system" was invented by Myron C. Butler (Edmond, Okla.) and Mark Davis (Edmond, Okla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ruggedized voice and data communication systems are disclosed having at least two communications boards. Each communications board has at least one transceiver and a plurality of interfaces. A first communications board includes a primary network communicator having a non-transitory memory connected to a processor. The non-transitory memory has computer-executable instructions that when executed by the ...