US Patent Issued to Orange on June 24 for "Protected data collection network" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,826, issued on June 24, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Protected data collection network" was invented by Loic Avenel (Chatillon, France), Regis Esnault (Chatillon, France) and Jean-Yves Lancien (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data collection network is disclosed. The network includes a plurality of devices and a collection apparatus suitable for collecting data generated by the devices. The network further includes a plurality of data-diode-type equipment items respectively associated with the devices, each device being connected to the collection apparatus via the associated data-diode-ty...