ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,802, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method and device for transmitting information on the configuration of an environment" was invented by Julien Cumin (Chatillon Cedex, France), Fano Ramparany (Chatillon Cedex, France) and Frederic Bour (Chatillon Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for transmitting information on the configuration of an environment comprising at least one first connected object and implementing at least one first service accessible through a first communication interface are described. The method is implemented by a computer and includes the ...