ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,618, issued on June 24, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method and apparatus for supporting proximity discovery procedures" was invented by Ravikumar V. Pragada (Warrington, Pa.), Saad Ahmad (Montreal), Balaji Raghothaman (Chester Springs, Pa.), Samian J. Kaur (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.), Pascal M. Adjakple (Great Neck, N.Y.), Ulises Olvera-Hernandez (London), Zhuorong Deng (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Kiran K. Vanganuru (San Diego), Gregory S. Sternberg (Mt. Laurel, N.J.), Guanzhou Wang (Brossard, Canada), Michael F. Starsinic (Newtown, Pa.), Alexander Reznik (Pennington, N.J.), Juan Carlos Zuniga (Montreal) and Eldad M. Zeira (Encinitas, Calif.).

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