ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,130, issued on July 15, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Methods and devices for securing a multiple-access peripheral network" was invented by Emile Stephan (Chatillon, France), Frederic Fieau (Chatillon, France) and Gael Fromentoux (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A description is given of a method for securing a multi-access edge computing network, where provision is made for a hardware security device designed to be connected to a host module of the network. The method, implemented by the hardware security device, includes upon reception of a presence request from the host module in the netw...