ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,844, issued on June 23, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Transmission of packets relating to a processing rule" was invented by Bruno Chatras (Paris) and Youssef Chadli (Issy les Moulineaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a packet stream generated by an application installed in a mobile terminal, the stream being intended to be sent by the terminal over a communications network managed by an operator. The method includes the following acts implemented in the terminal, for at least one packet generated by the application: obtaining a first packet having a first header and payload da...