ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,382, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Vorbeck Materials Corp. (Jessup, Md.).

"Self contained communications system" was invented by Samarpita Chowdhury (Baltimore), Josiah Henry (Linthicum, Md.) and Sriram Manivannan (Elkridge, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention relate to a distributed self-contained communications system (dSCCS). The dSCCS includes primary computing devices (PCDs) and secondary computing devices (SCDs). The PCDs and SCDs are man-portable. Each PCS includes a communications device. Each SCD includes geolocation device and a unique digital identifier. The PCDs form a mesh network...