US Patent Issued to ZTE on July 28 for "Security methods for protecting discovery procedures in wireless networks" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,091, issued on July 28, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen Guangdong, China).

"Security methods for protecting discovery procedures in wireless networks" was invented by Jin Peng (Shenzhen, China), Shilin You (Shenzhen, China), Yuze Liu (Shenzhen, China), Zhen Xing (Shenzhen, China) and Zhaoji Lin (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This patent document describes, among other things, techniques, and apparatuses for a security method of discovery in proximity-based services. In one aspect, a method of wireless communication is disclosed. The method includes transmitting, by a wireless device to a first network function, a...