US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on June 23 for "Security protection of user equipment (UE)-to-UE relay discovery" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,254, issued on June 23, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Security protection of user equipment (UE)-to-UE relay discovery" was invented by Hongil Kim (San Diego), Soo Bum Lee (San Diego), Karthika Paladugu (Hyderabad, India), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may encrypt a discovery message associated with a relay service based at least in part on a set of code-sending security parameters (CSSPs) associated with the relay service....