ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,073, issued on May 27, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Relay communication" was invented by Dongjoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Sungduck Chun (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyunsook Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosure of the present specification provides a method for performing relay communication by a first UE. The method may comprise the steps of: transmitting a request message including UE ID, relay information, UE type information, and UE public key information to an application server through a 5G core network; receiving, from the application server, a security-related message ...