ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,908, issued on May 20, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Determination of noise in a signal" was invented by Esteban Selva (Chatillon, France) and Apostolos Kountouris (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining noise associated with a received signal in a telecommunications network, the received signal being sampled beforehand in the form of a succession of data. The method includes: selecting a portion of the data in the received signal and determining a given number of possible partitions of the selected portion of the data in the received signal, the number of partitions being g...