US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Aug. 26 for "Security and privacy support for direct wireless communications" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,993, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Security and privacy support for direct wireless communications" was invented by Michelle Perras (Montreal), Alec Brusilovsky (Downingtown, Pa.), Xiaoyan Shi (Westmount, Canada), Saad Ahmad (Montreal) and Samir Ferdi (Kirkland, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and instrumentalities are described herein that provide security and/or privacy support for wireless transmit receive units (WTRUs) communicating via a WTRU to WTRU relay. A source WTRU may obtain a new IP address from a relay WTRU via a link identifier update re...