ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,973, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method and device for managing access authorization to a payment service provided to a user" was invented by Fabrice Jeanne (Chatillon, France), Baptiste Francois Hemery (Chatillon, France), Sandrine Le Calvez (Chatillon, France) and Romain Trinquart (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for managing access authorization to a payment service provided to a user is disclosed. A request to initialize at least one access authorization is received from a terminal of the owner user. Such an access authorization is intended to al...