US Patent Issued to John Cockerill Defense on Sept. 2 for "Secure remote operation of a weapons system" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,087, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to John Cockerill Defense SA (Ans, Belgium).

"Secure remote operation of a weapons system" was invented by Jonathan Pisane (Fernelmont, Belgium) and Yohann Aubry (Awans, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for securing two-way communications using a radio frequency wireless network between N weapons systems to be remotely operated, with Nless than=1, and a control station, includes: a remote-control station accommodating at least one operator, with a first field data bus to which a first controller is connected with at least a first transceiver system as a client; and N conventional we...