ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,645, issued on March 31, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Characterization of a user via association of a sound with an interactive element" was invented by Nicolas Pellen (Chatillon, France), Christian Gregoire (Chatillon, France) and Katell Peron (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for characterizing a user and a corresponding computer program, storage medium, and processing device. The method includes comparing between at least one first identifier of a first sound and at least one second identifier received from a human-machine interface, after the human-machine interface plays a plur...