ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,030, issued on March 4, was assigned to AVIAN INC. (Lexington Park, Md.).

"Blockchain secured polyphonic radio (PR) wireless mesh networks using pulse-based communications (PBC) methods and apparatus" was invented by Vincent M. Vanoss (Leonardtown, Md.), Faranak Nekoogar (San Ramon, Calif.) and Farid U. Dowla (Castro Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A networking architecture that incorporates the security of Blockchain distributed ledgers as an authentication layer, while connecting mesh nodes using secure, pulse-based wide-band ultra wide-band communication technology to provide a nearly undetectable, unbreakable, and d...