US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Dec. 2 for "Method and apparatus for device-to-device communication" (Swedish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,318, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for device-to-device communication" was invented by Zhang Fu (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for direct device-to-device communication. The method which may be performed by a first device comprises generating an Internet protocol address of the first device. The Internet protocol address of the first device may be applicable for direct device-to-device communication between the first device and a second device via a third device. The method further com...