ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,980, issued on June 17, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Information scrambling systems and methods" was invented by James G. Leatham (Los Angeles) and Michael M. Furusawa (Chino Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving an outgoing data stream and dividing the outgoing data stream to generate multiple electromagnetic signals in multiple channels using a first manifold. The method also includes modifying at least some of the electromagnetic signals in at least some of the channels to generate scrambled electromagnetic signals. The method further includes combining the scrambled electromag...