ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,837, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Key obtaining method and communication apparatus" was invented by Yizhuang Wu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a key obtaining method and a communication apparatus. A remote terminal device sends a first identifier and a relay service code to a relay terminal device. The first identifier is an identifier that is of the remote terminal device and that is corresponding to the relay service code, or the first identifier is an anonymous identifier of the remote terminal device. The remote terminal device generates, b...