US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on April 21 for "Authentication and authorization associated with layer 3 wireless-transmit/receive-unit-to-network" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,232, issued on April 21, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Authentication and authorization associated with layer 3 wireless-transmit/receive-unit-to-network" was invented by Samir Ferdi (Kirkland, Canada), Guanzhou Wang (Brossard, Canada), Xiaoyan Shi (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Behrouz Aghili (Commack, N.Y.), Michelle Perras (Montreal) and Saad Ahmad (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relay wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive a direct communication request (DCR) from a remote WTRU requesting connectivity service (e.g., connectivity session parameters such as single-network slice ...