ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,675, issued on May 20, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"5G prose service based discovery" was invented by Saad Ahmad (Montreal), Samir Ferdi (Kirkland, Canada), Michelle Perras (Montreal) and Xiaoyan Shi (Westmount, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses are described herein for proximity-based services (ProSe) service-based discovery. For example, a service utilizing-wireless transmit/receive unit (SU-WTRU) may be provisioned with a type of discovery on a per-service basis and a security credential on a per-service basis. The SU-WTRU may transmit (315) a PC5 discovery mess...