ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,345, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Volocopter GmbH (Bruchsal, Germany).

"Method and system for verifying data communication integrity in an aircraft" was invented by Burak Yuksel (Tubingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method of verifying data communication integrity in an aircraft which has first and second data generating and sending entities. Data generated at the first entity is sent to the second entity as messages via a number of intermediate entities. The data communication is a blockchain with blocks, each being added to the blockchain by one of the entities and including a cryptographic hash representative of th...