ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,056, issued on March 3, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Securing transactions" was invented by Fabrice Jeanne (Chatillon Cedex, France), Patrick Leroy (Chatillon Cedex, France) and Christopher Georget (Chatillon Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for securing a transaction between a terminal, in particular of a first user, and a device, in particular of a second user, via a server, in particular of a third-party entity. The method includes comparing: a first series of codes drawn from a private key and associated with the transaction device transmitted from the server to the transaction devic...