ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,394, issued on May 20, was assigned to AMADEUS S.A.S. (Biot, France).

"Device, system and method for distributing and locally persisting provider objects" was invented by Yannick Guiraud Devaux (Mougins, France), Gilles Louis Claude Gagniard (Roquefort les Pins, France), Yves Grealou (Antibes, France) and Nicolas Michel Monteil (Villeneuve-Loubet, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, system and method for distributing and locally persisting provider objects is provided. A first device provides, in a provider object stream, first indications of first provider objects, generated and locally persisted in association with a fi...