ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,891, issued on July 14, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method for managing data routing in a communication system and devices for implementing the method" was invented by Marc Capelle (Chatillon Cedex, France), Sovatha Chou (Chatillon Cedex, France), Flavien Joly Pottuz (Chatillon Cedex, France) and Stephane Litkowski (Chatillon Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for measuring the propagation time of data routing information in a data communication system including a data communication network which comprises a plurality of router nodes operating according to a routing protocol for routing d...