US Patent Issued to Apple on May 12 for "Identifying relay user equipment for sidelink relay" (Chinese, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,071, issued on May 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Identifying relay user equipment for sidelink relay" was invented by Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.), Shu Guo (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Sudeep Manithara Vamanan (Nuremberg, Germany) and Yuqin Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for managing relay identifiers for sidelink relays in wireless networks."

The patent was filed on Oct. 21, 2021, under A...