ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,097, issued on May 13, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods, apparatus and systems using vehicle-to-everything (V2X) enhancements to support vehicle-to-pedestrian (V2P) communication" was invented by Saad Ahmad (Montreal), Samir Ferdi (Kirkland, Canada) and Michelle Perras (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "V2X Enhancements to support V2P communication are disclosed. In particular, Vehicle to Pedestrian Communications are provided. Methods and apparatus for direct link with a peer WTRU using a first key identifier of a root key are provided. In an embodiment, a method includes sending, ...