US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on Aug. 25 for "Security for groupcast message in D2D communication" (Swedish, Canadian, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,929, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Security for groupcast message in D2D communication" was invented by Noamen Ben Henda (Vallingby, Sweden), Markus Hanhisalo (Espoo, Finland), Monica Wifvesson (Lund, Sweden), Yazid Lyazidi (Hasselby, Sweden) and Shabnam Sultana (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a security mechanism to mitigate the risk of trackability of a D2D device engaged in groupcast communication. The security mechanism relies on the introduction of new parameters provisioned to the UE to facilitate the privacy protection of destina...