ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,985, issued on July 29, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Latency-free intercellular transfer management for a multiple-attachment mobile terminal" was invented by Antoine Mouquet (Chatillon, France) and Xiaofeng Huang (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for multiple attachment of a mobile terminal to access points of a plurality of access points of at least one cellular network. The terminal is able to be attached simultaneously to a given number of different access points, called maximum number of attachments. The method is implemented by the terminal and includes: receiving a command to ...