US Patent Issued to Orange on Sept. 1 for "Advanced data processing for efficient carpooling" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,881, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Advanced data processing for efficient carpooling" was invented by Thierry Gaillet (Chatillon, France), Sylvain Leroux (Chatillon, France) and Laurent Mussot (Chatillon, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A determination of a priority to be assigned to a vehicle, carried out by a server. The determination includes: collecting, from a communication network, data concerning at least the identifiers of communicating devices, one of the collected identifiers being associated with the vehicle, determining a number of collocated identifiers according to a sel...