ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,576, issued on June 10, was assigned to GLOBALSYS (Bonneuil sur Marne, France).

"Method of securing radio communication between an aircraft and a ramp agent" was invented by Dominique Retali (Champigny-sur-Marne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of securing radio communication between a ramp agent and an aircraft provided with a base station adapted to transmit a beacon signal includes establishing a first database identifying organizations such as aircraft operators and authorized service providers; for each organization, establishing a second database identifying the ramp agents that it employs and associating biometr...