ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,553, issued on July 21, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-moulineaux, France).

"Method and device for configuration of an access unit in a virtualized environment" was invented by Emile Stephan (Chatillon Cedex, France), Romuald Corbel (Chatillon Cedex, France), Bini Angui (Chatillon Cedex, France) and Veronica Quintuna Rodriguez (Chatillon Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process implemented by an administration entity for configuring an access unit of a communication network in a virtualised environment having an operating software application. The process includes receiving, from a mediating entity of the operating so...