" In the case of Kiesler Prize recipient Toyo Ito, the influence has been aesthetic in the broadest sense, motivating his "desire to pursue spaces of simplicity and transparent nature.
U.S. Patent No. 2, 292, 387 for a "Secret Communication System" was issued to Hedy Kiesler Markey and George Antheil in 1942. (Markey was the surname of a husband she had divorced in 1940.) The frequency-hopping technology was not put to use in World War II, but it was employed in 1962 during the blockade of Cuba.