ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,097, issued on March 31, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method for decoding a data stream, associated device and associated data stream" was invented by Felix Henry (Saint-Gregoire, France) and Gordon Clare (Pace, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data stream includes an indicator (IND) and data (Fnn) representative of a video or audio content. A method for decoding this data stream includes: decoding (E60) the indicator (IND) to determine whether an artificial neural network to be used to decode the representative data (Fnn) is encoded into the data stream or forms part of a predetermined set of artifi...