ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,942, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method for configuring an electronic device connected to a communications network" was invented by David Cibaud (Chatillon, France) and Julien Cumin (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for configuring an electronic device connected to a communications network is implemented in the electronic device. The method includes: obtaining at least one item of contextual information relating to the environment of the electronic device, and setting at least one configuration parameter of the electronic device to a value that depends on the at l...