US Patent Issued to Orange on Sept. 30 for "Assistance in controlling the spread of a disease, using networked devices" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,538, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Assistance in controlling the spread of a disease, using networked devices" was invented by Stephane Vialle (Chatillon, France) and Guy Vidal (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of assistance in controlling the spread of a contagious disease, using networked devices, is disclosed. The method includes upon receiving data relating to infection by the disease of a first user of a first mobile terminal, obtaining a list including data of successive geographical positions of the first terminal over a predetermined period of time, and es...