ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,290, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Authorization method, apparatus and system for authorizing relay service relationships between remote and relay terminals using policy control function devices" was invented by Shengfeng Xu (Beijing), Yanmei Yang (Beijing), Meng Li (Beijing) and Jiangwei Ying (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An authorization method includes receiving, by a policy control function device of a relay terminal, a request message from an access and mobility management function device of the relay terminal. The request message includes an identifier of a remote...