ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,627, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to INTERDIGITAL CE PATENT HOLDINGS SAS (Paris).

"Method and apparatus for establishing a communication between a first and a second communication device" was invented by Vincent Alleaume (Pace, France), Pierrick Jouet (Rennes, France), Anthony Laurent (Vignoc, France) and Caroline Baillard (Saint Sulpice la Foret, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first communication device, e.g., having a camera, is pointed, by a first person, in direction of a second person with which the first person wants to communicate in an interactive session, using his communication device. The camera captures the fa...