ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,258, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods, apparatus and systems for secured radio resource control (RRC) signaling over a PC5 interface for unicast communication" was invented by Michelle Perras (Montreal), Samir Ferdi (Kirkland, Canada), Martino Freda (Laval, Canada) and Saad Ahmad (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, apparatus and systems are disclosed that may be implemented in a Wireless Transmit/Receive Unit (WTRU) for unicast communication with another WTRU. The method may include sending, by the WTRU to the other WTRU via a PC5 interface, a communication...