ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,571, issued on June 10, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Securing the user plane path for a group communication session based on a security policy common to all devices in the group" was invented by Vlasios Tsiatsis (Solna, Sweden), Noamen Ben Henda (Vallingby, Sweden) and Monica Wifvesson (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network node (26, 400) is configured for use in a wireless communication network (10). The network node (26, 400) receives a request to establish a session (14-1) for a device (12-1) in a group (18), e.g., a 5G Local Area Network group (18). The network node (26, 400...