ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,454, issued on April 14, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).
"Method for collaborative management of licenses across industrial sectors" was invented by Frederic Fieau (Chatillon, France), Gael Fromentoux (Chatillon, France) and Emile Stephan (Chatillon, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing licenses for a service application across a plurality of interconnected industrial sectors. The method includes: selecting a delegation policy; deploying a local virtual license manager in one of the two industrial sectors, and sending a license authorizing the local virtual license manager to use the serv...