MUMBAI, India, July 7 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202647079090 A) filed by Nokia Technologies Oy on June 26, 2026, for Discovery And Path Selection For Multi-Hop Relays.

Inventors include Kousaridas, Apostolos; Sabouri-Sichani, Faranaz; Van Phan, Vinh; Marandi, Sayed Ali; and Yu, Ling.

The application for the patent was published on July 03, 2026, under issue no. 27/2026.

Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a first user equipment (UE), a first message from a second UE, including an indication of a request for multi-hop relaying, and first criteria for communicating via multi-hop relaying. A determination is performed to transmit the first message to a third UE. At least one criterion is genera...