ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,104, issued on May 13, was assigned to ASUS Technology Licensing Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for supporting network assistance security establishment in UE-to-UE relay in a wireless communication system" was invented by Li-Te Pan (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for a relay User Equipment (UE) are disclosed. The relay UE receives a first direct communication request message from a source end UE for establishing a UE-to-UE (U2U) relay communication with a target end UE. The relay UE also sends a second direct communication request message to the target end UE in a direct link establis...