ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,642, issued on July 15, was assigned to Istari Digital Inc. (Charleston, S.C.).

"Security system for an unmanned vehicle" was invented by William Roper Jr. (Charleston, S.C.), Christopher Benson (Charleston, S.C.), Long N. Phan (Charleston, S.C.), Thomas A. Campbell (Evergreen, Colo.), Paul A. DeBitetto (Concord, Mass.) and Sanjay Emani Sarma (Malden, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unmanned vehicle includes at least one navigation sensor configured to measure navigation data indicative of an environment, at least one status sensor configured to measure status data indicative of operating parameters of a hardware system and a...