US Patent Issued to ORANGE on Dec. 2 for "Method and device for securely connecting to a local area network" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,094, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method and device for securely connecting to a local area network" was invented by Fabrice Fontaine (Chatillon, France) and Xavier Le Guillou (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a device and a system for secure connection. The method is implemented by a first terminal of a network administered by an access point. The terminal has a first address, called own address. The method includes: acquiring a set of data, called status data, including at least one address of at least one second terminal known to the network; and connecting to th...