ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,937, issued on May 20, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"OMAMRC method and system with FDM transmission" was invented by Raphael Visoz (Chatillon, France) and Ali Al Khansa (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A message method intended for an OMAMRC telecommunication system with M sources si iEpsilon{1.., M], potentially L relays (r1.., rL) and a destination. The transmission is of FDM type in a band divided into B mutually orthogonal sub-bands. The method includes: a simultaneous transmission of the M sources in a time interval with allocation of at least one sub-band per source and at least one coo...