ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,727, issued on March 18, was assigned to The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Arlington, Va.).

"Forward deployable deck box system for the aggregation and visualization of distributed assets" was invented by Blake J. Landry (Saint Martinville, La.), Adam Trahan (Slidell, La.), Samuel Bateman (Picayune, Miss.) and Charles R. Key (Diamondhead, Miss.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including configuring, an Iridium antenna of a deck box device, to receive satellite communications based in the L band frequency range, establishing a point-to-point connection with an L-band s...