US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on July 8 for "Remote firing system" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,352,553, issued on July 8, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Remote firing system" was invented by Kevin L. Phelps (Alexandria, Va.), Brian Amato (Fairfax, Va.), Daniel Pines (Alexandria, Va.) and Taylor Young (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote firing system for remotely detonating an explosive charge includes a smart controller that utilizes a unique encryption key to generate encrypted command control messages. The messages include a detonation precondition that must occur before detonation. A bridge transceiver communicates with the smart contro...