ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,906, issued on April 21, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method and device for assisting with unsubscribing from a newsletter" was invented by Maryline Gidon (Chatillon Cedex, France), Tiphaine Marie (Chatillon Cedex, France) and Fabrice Bourge (Chatillon Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for assisting with unsubscribing from a periodical newsletter. The newsletter is received by an electronic terminal of a user in the form of emails. The method is implemented by a device for assisting with unsubscribing and includes: characterization of an email received by the terminal as an email of the ...