ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,019, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"OMAMRC transmission method and system with variation in the number of uses of the channel" was invented by Visoz Raphael (Chatillon, France), Ali Al Khansa (Chatillon, France) and Stefan Cerovic (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmission method with slow link adaptation intended for an OMAMRC telecommunication system with M sources (s1.., sM), optionally L relays and a destination, Mless than=2, Lless than=0. A number of uses of the channel is allocated to each source for transmission and this number is determined by the destination...