ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,271, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method and electronic device for decoding a data stream, and associated computer program and data streams" was invented by Felix Henry (Saint-Gregoire, France) and Gordon Clare (Pace, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decoding a data stream, including a plurality of identifiers and a bit sequence, into a sequence of data of respective predetermined types includes the following operations for obtaining each item of data of the sequence: determining a context on the basis of an identifier, from among the plurality of identifiers, with the ty...