ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,935, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for providing direct communication in wireless communication system" was invented by Hoyeon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sunghoon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the disclosure, an operating method of a first proximity-based services (ProSe) function belonging to a first public land mobile network (PLMN) includes: receiving a first ProSe Communication Create Request message from an application function (AF), a network exposure function (NEF) belonging to the first ...