ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,700, issued on April 22, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.v (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods for privacy protection using coordination of initial connection release during relay reselection" was invented by Samir Ferdi (Kirkland, Canada), Michelle Perras (Montreal) and Ulises Olvera-Hernandez (Saint-Lazare, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an implementation, a second device, for example a second WTRU, may receive a Link Modification Request (LMR) message from a first device, for example a first WTRU, via a first relay. The LMR message may include one or more new MSBs for a new Key NR ProSe identifier (KNRP ID). Th...