ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,616, issued on July 29, was assigned to B/E Aerospace Inc. (Winston-Salem, N.C.).
"Discreet intra-aircraft communication" was invented by Jose-Rodrigo Castillo-Garza (West Hartford, Conn.) and Brigid A. Blakeslee (Hamden, Conn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed herein, including detecting, by a processor, a signal received from a camera, the signal including an image. The method further includes processing, by the processor, the received signal to identify an image included in the signal and determining, by the processor, that the signal includes a discreet message, the discreet message is embedded within an image....