ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,703, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"U2N relay (UP) PC5 link setup security when using GBA push" was invented by Zhibi Wang (Woodridge, Ill.), Samir Ferdi (Kirkland, Canada), Taimoor Abbas (Sainte-Julie, Canada) and Xiaoyan Shi (Lake Oswego, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relay WTRU may receive, from a remote WTRU, a request for connection that includes a PRUK ID. The relay WTRU may transmit, to a PKMF associated with the relay WTRU, a key request message that includes the PRUK ID. The relay WTRU may receive, from the PKMF associated with the relay WTRU, a key response me...