ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,111, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method for activating a communication interface of a residential gateway in a local communication network, corresponding equipment and computer program" was invented by Simon Gloanec (Chatillon, France), Morgane Le Foll (Chatillon, France) and Didier Le Mat (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for activating at least one communication interface of a residential gateway of a local communication network to which a main item of equipment configured for connecting to the at least one communication interface of the residential gateway is c...