US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on April 15 for "Priority handling for prose communications" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,195, issued on April 15, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Priority handling for prose communications" was invented by Mahmoud Watfa (Saint Leonard, Canada), Guanzhou Wang (Brossard, Canada), Saad Ahmad (Montreal), Amir Helmy (Vancouver, Canada) and Ulises Olvera-Hernandez (Saint-Lazare, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for priority handling for ProSe Communications. A relay wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may act as a relay between the network and the remote WTRU. The relay WTRU may receive a temporary mobile group identity (TMGI) re...