US Patent Issued to Orange on July 15 for "Detection of communicating objects for proximity interactions" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,645, issued on July 15, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Detection of communicating objects for proximity interactions" was invented by Philippe Surbayrole (Chatillon, France) and Apostolos Kountouris (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, implemented by a first device, for establishing a radiofrequency communication with at least a second device is disclosed. The method includes a) transmission of a first message at a first transmission power, b) reception of at least one second message coming from at least the second device, the second message including data relating to a second transmissi...