US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on April 21 for "Key management for UE-to-network relay access" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,230, issued on April 21, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Key management for UE-to-network relay access" was invented by Monica Wifvesson (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a user equipment, UE, (1000) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes obtaining (502) a discovery key for discovery of a UE-to-Network relay from a first application function. The method includes using (504) the discovery key for discovery of the UE-to-Network relay over a PC5 interface. A method of operating a user equipment-to-network, UE-to-NW, relay node in a wirele...