ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,831, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SAFRAN SEATS (Plaisir, France) and SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE (Paris).

"Communication system for aircraft" was invented by Romeo Giorgio (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Nicolas Fanton (Moissy-Cramayel, France), Nicolas Lipari (Moissy-Cramayel, France) and Jean-Marc Obadia (Moissy-Cramayel, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system for an aircraft includes a first data concentrator, a first plurality of communicating devices for sending data to the first concentrator by wireless transmission. The first concentrator broadcasts at least one parameterisation signal for parameterising ...