US Patent Issued to Orange on May 20 for "Selection and control of connected objects from a symbolic representation of a topography of a site" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,162, issued on May 20, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Selection and control of connected objects from a symbolic representation of a topography of a site" was invented by Sylvie Le Gac Cesbron (Chatillon, France), Thierry Martinez (Chatillon, France) and Sebastien Chevallier (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a connected object deployed in a geographical area. A corresponding computer program, storage medium, and processing circuit. The method includes displaying, via a visual interface, a symbolic representation of the geographical area in the form of juxtaposed interac...