US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on Nov. 3 for "Cryptographic security mechanism for groupcast communication" (Swedish, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,983, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Cryptographic security mechanism for groupcast communication" was invented by Noamen Ben Henda (Vallingby, Sweden), Markus Hanhisalo (Espoo, Finland) and Monica Wifvesson (Lund, Sweden).

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 UE engaged in groupcast communication. The security mechanism makes use of cryptographic functions and thus provides a cryptographic-grade protection for groupcast communications. The security mechanism can be implemented without any addit...