ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,959, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AIRBUS DS SLC (Elancourt, France).

"Method for initiating communication within a regroup of communication groups in a 3GPP MCS network" was invented by Francois Piroard (Elancourt, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for initiating a communication within a regroup of communication groups, the method being implemented by a network according to the 3GPP MCS standard including at least two systems separated by a gateway hiding or deleting information necessary for initiating a communication in a global communication group to which entities distributed in the at least two systems are a...