ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,039, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SAGEMCOM BROADBAND SAS (Bois-Colombes, France).

"Method and system for detecting incidents in at least one local area communication network" was invented by Elyes Ben Hamida (Rueil Malmaison, France), Laurent Koller (Rueil Malmaison, France) and Johny Lin (Rueil Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an incident detection device in a local area network, an incident detection device being connected to the local area network by a wide area network, the local area network including a data conditioning and processing device, that: obtains, from the incident detection device, ...