ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,635, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method for managing communication between terminals in a telecommunications system and devices for implementing the method" was invented by Jean Schwoerer (Chatillon, France) and Raphael Visoz (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a communication set up according to a first communication mode between terminals in a telecommunications system. The method includes: obtaining, by a first terminal participating in the communication, a request to change communication mode so as to transition from the first communication mode to a ...