US Patent Issued to Orange on July 14 for "Supporting real number calculations in physical switches" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,916, issued on July 14, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Supporting real number calculations in physical switches" was invented by Kahina Lazri (Chatillon Cedex, France) and Matthews Jose (Chatillon Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing a packet via a physical switch of an electronic communications network, the method including the following acts implemented by the physical switch: receiving a packet; determining a result of applying an operation or a plurality of operations to at least one input value obtained from the packet by the physical switch; and depending on the result of ...