US Patent Issued to BAE Systems on April 22 for "Secure communication system" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,159, issued on April 22, was assigned to BAE Systems PLC (London).

"Secure communication system" was invented by Stephen Matthew Allan Jenner (Bournemouth, Great Britain), David James Sullivan (Bournemouth, Great Britain) and Benjamin Mark Lee (Bournemouth, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A router node comprises a link discovery module, a security module, a secure access module and storage. The link discovery module discovers a link to an adjacent router node and receives its first loopback address. The link discovery module creates a first tunnel between the security module in the router node and the first loopback addre...