ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,378, issued on May 27, was assigned to AURA Network Systems Inc. (McLean, Va.).

"Systems and methods for flight plan specific distributed ledger based aviation data link security" was invented by Tamara Lynne Casey (Annapolis, Md.), Michael Robert Gagne (Monrovia, Md.), Bryan Wesley Brown (Baltimore), Christopher David Coleman (Arlington, Va.) and Allan Thomson (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are systems and methods for operating a flight plan based distributed ledger system implemented on an aviation communications network. According to an aspect, data associated with communication transmissions o...