US Patent Issued to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy on March 25 for "Systems and methods for joining swarm-communication modules" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,108, issued on March 25, was assigned to The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Keyport, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for joining swarm-communication modules" was invented by Eric Seeley (Seebeck, Wash.) and Jacob Snow (Bremerton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for joining swarm-communication modules comprising modular elements and attachable components, including a male end adapted to join a single-piece female end by rotating the male end into the single-piece female end such that data bus terminals align and power bus terminals align. The system can be assembled from these modular...