ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,916, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Airbus Defence and Space GmbH (Taufkirchen, Germany) and Airbus Defence and Space S.A.U. (Madrid).

"Command control of mobile entities with reduced crew" was invented by Jorg Meyer (Mainburg, Germany) and Alvaro Linares Enriquez (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling operation of mobile entities includes mobile entities and a master entity communicatively coupled to each one of the mobile entities. Each of the mobile entities includes a control module and at least one function component. The control module controls operation of the at least one function component and ...