ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,051, issued on June 17, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Proximity services emergency call" was invented by Hannu Petri Hietalahti (Kiviniemi, Finland), Mohamed Amin Nassar (Munich), Ling Yu (Kauniainen, Finland) and Vinh Van Phan (Oulu, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for emergency sessions, such as emergency calls, using a relay provided by proximity services are provided. For example, a method may include indicating, in a relay discovery procedure, a capability of a relay user equipment to support an emergency call. The method can alternati...