ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,125, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Entity for implementing a service in a network, application device, and method for executing an operation of a service" was invented by Michel Trefcon (Chatillon, France) and Alexandra Ansiaux (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An entity for implementing a service in a network, an application device, and a method for executing an operation of a service are described. An entity is configured to implement a first service implemented by a first application device of a communications network, the entity including a management module configured t...