ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,401, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Device and method for authenticating a user of a first electronic device connected to a second electronic device by using a relative characteristic parameter" was invented by Richard Guignon (Chatillon, France), Sebastien Poivre (Chatillon, France) and Gildas Belay (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Authentication of a user of a first electronic device, such as a communication terminal or a virtual or augmented reality headset. The first electronic device is connected to a second electronic device, the first electronic device and the secon...