US Patent Issued to Pierce Aerospace on June 17 for "Remote identification and management of manned and unmanned systems and devices" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,949, issued on June 17, was assigned to Pierce Aerospace Inc. (Fishers, Ind.).

"Remote identification and management of manned and unmanned systems and devices" was invented by Aaron Pierce (Indianapolis), Gary L. Bullock (Bedford, Ind.), Larry Carl Howard (Bloomington, Ind.) and Michael Collins (Danville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure describe a secure, scalable and extensible aircraft and other system and device identity management (IdM) system that enables services for identity provisioning (idP), and identity validation, verification and authentication (idVV&A). The identity and managem...