ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,342, issued on May 27, was assigned to Singapore University of Technology and Design (Singapore).
"Device-to-device wireless communication" was invented by Jay Prakash (Singapore), Tony Quee Seng Quek (Singapore), Andrei Bytes (Singapore), Jianying Zhou (Singapore) and Jemin Lee (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of establishing a direct wireless communication link between a first device and a second device (the first device being designated as a sender and the second device being designated as a receiver) comprises: a proximity authentication operation that comprises determining, based on signals received by the firs...