ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,572, issued on July 8, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).
"Secure communication protocol" was invented by Luca Manica (Trento, Italy), Goran Djuknic (New York) and Marco Carloni (Rome).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of transmitting a message from a sender to a receiver is provided, wherein the communication between the sender and receiver is performed using a hybrid automatic-repeat-request protocol. Artificial noise is added digitally to a first data packet in order to trigger transmission of a second data packet. Corresponding artificial noise is added digitally to the second data packet such that th...