ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,829, issued on June 10, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington).

"Modular unified avionics system" was invented by Zachary Boblitt (Nashville, Tenn.), Noosha Haghani (Fulton, Md.), Robert Gheen (Accokeek, Md.), Amri Hernandez-Pellerano (Clarksville, Md.), Austin Lanham (Baltimore), Bradford Kercheval (Greenbelt, Md.), Michael Burns (Greenbelt, Md.), James Fraction (Greenbelt, Md.), Omar Haddad (South Daytona, Fla.), Shahana Pagen (Lanham, Md.) and Erik Laurila (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An avionics system includes a plurality of card assemblies having a stand...