ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,403, issued on May 27, was assigned to Rockwell Collins Inc. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa).

"Situational awareness (SA) in radio silence (spatial awareness)" was invented by Tj T. Kwon (Marion, Iowa), William B. Sorsby (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), Eric J. Loren (North Liberty, Iowa) and Joseph T. Graf (Center Point, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a transmitter node and a receiver node. Each node may include a communications interface including at least one antenna element and a controller operatively coupled to the communications interface, the controller including one or more processors, wherein the controller has informat...