ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,579, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Data transfer during mobility in layer 2 relay" was invented by Yuqin Chen (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Longda Xing (San Jose, Calif.), Murtaza A. Shikari (Mountain View, Calif.), Sethuraman Gurumoorthy (San Ramon, Calif.), Sree Ram Kodali (San Jose, Calif.), Srinivasan Nimmala (San Jose, Calif.) and Srirang A. Lovlekar (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is configured to operate as a relay UE between a remote UE and a base station. The relay UE receives, from an...