US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on July 22 for "Privacy protection for sidelink communications" (Swedish, Canadian, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,706, issued on July 22, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Privacy protection for sidelink communications" was invented by Zhang Fu (Stockholm), Markus Hanhisalo (Espoo, Finland), Shabnam Sultana (Montreal) and Noamen Ben Henda (Vallingby, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Security and privacy mechanisms are provided to protect the L2 identifiers used in groupcast communications over the sidelink (e.g., PC5 interface) without requiring a UE to periodically refresh the L2 identifiers, which may cause extra signaling overhead, increased latency and greater risk of synchronization issues. To prevent...