ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,985, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Optimized triggering of telephone communications" was invented by Francois Caseau (Chatillon, France) and Mark Evans (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing telephone communication and to a corresponding computer program, storage medium, telephone communication management device, and telephone communication management platform. A request to set up a telephone communication session between a first terminal and a second terminal is received. Each terminal has its own identifier. A first call command is sent to the first terminal...