US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on Feb. 18 for "Information provision about peer communication devices" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,068, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Information provision about peer communication devices" was invented by Tommy Arngren (Sodra Sunderbyn, Sweden), Min Wang (Lulea, Sweden), David Lindero (Lulea, Sweden) and Jonas Pettersson (Lulea, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided mechanisms for providing information about peer communication devices to a network node. A method is performed by a first peer communication device. The method comprises exchanging, with a second peer communication device over a device-to-device connection, any timestamped identity information...