US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Sept. 30 for "Handling application functions for key management in communication device-network relay scenarios" (Swedish, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,552, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Handling application functions for key management in communication device-network relay scenarios" was invented by Monica Wifvesson (Lund, Sweden), Zhang Fu (Stockholm) and Vesa Lehtovirta (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote communication device can receive a discovery key; receive a communication key and a key identifier, ID, for the communication key; and discover a relay communication device. Discovering the relay communication device can include receiving an encrypted discovery message from the relay communication de...