ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,485, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Processing of a call by videoconference between two terminals" was invented by Paul Tchoumi (Chatillon, France) and Yoann Verseillie (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The processing of a call between at least two terminals via a network is disclosed, where a videoconference session between the terminals being in process, and network conditions being likely to degrade the quality of a videoconference call between the terminals. A server then implements the following: upon receipt of a first message from the server about degradation of the vi...