ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,414, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"User equipment-to-network relay security for proximity based services" was invented by Yuze Liu (Shenzhen, China), Shilin You (Shenzhen, China), Jin Peng (Shenzhen, China), Zhen Xing (Shenzhen, China) and Zhaoji Lin (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented are systems, methods, apparatuses, or computer-readable media for authenticating remote wireless communication devices. An authentication server function (AUSF) may send, to a unified data management (UDM), a request for authentication vectors (AV) in association with a remote wireless communicatio...