ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,998, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Methods and systems for identifying AUSF and accessing related keys in 5G prose" was invented by R Rohini (Bangalore, India), Nivedya Parambath Sasi (Bangalore, India) and Rajavelsamy Rajadurai (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for identifying AUSF and accessing related keys in 5G ProSe. The AUSF corresponding to a remote UE is identified by an AMF based on routing indicator or SKI. The AUSF is capable of key management of ProSe UE-to-Network relay communication. The AUSF authorizes the remote UE to access...