ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,496, issued on July 1, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Process for declaring the non-usability of exchanged data" was invented by Yann Gestraud (Chatillon, France) and Christophe Suart (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making secure a communication between a first and at least one second terminal is disclosed. Each terminal being configured to interact with a user via a corresponding human-machine interface, the method comprising selecting, on the first terminal, a usability index for signals in a stream; transmitting the stream from the first terminal to at least one node of a networ...