ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,773, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Communication management method and associated devices" was invented by Mohamed Boucadair (Chatillon, France) and Christian Jacquenet (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing communications in accordance with a given transport protocol. The method is implemented by a first device and includes, following detection of a cyber attack, activating, in the first device, collaboration with at least one entity of the network in order to mitigate the cyber attack, this collaboration including execution, by the first device, of at leas...