ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,550, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Methods relating to uses of command codes and to the association of terminals, first terminal, second terminal and command code management device" was invented by Patrick Kirschbaum (Chatillon, France), Halim Bendiabdallah (Chatillon, France) and Romain Carbou (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A command code management method, implemented by a command code management device. The method includes transmitting a command signal to a second terminal that has been associated with a first terminal from which a command code, on which the command ...