US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Aug. 4 for "End-to-end authentication via a WTRU-to-WTRU relay" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,413, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"End-to-end authentication via a WTRU-to-WTRU relay" was invented by Michelle Perras (Montreal), Alec Brusilovsky (Downingtown, Pa.), Samir Ferdi (Kirkland, Canada) and Xiaoyan Shi (Lake Oswego, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may function as a relay between other WTRUs. The relay WTRU may receive a domain name system (DNS) query request from a first WTRU for the internet protocol (IP) address of a second WTRU. The DNS query request may comprise the first WTRU's authentication container. The relay WT...