ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,225, issued on April 21, was assigned to ASUS Technology Licensing Inc. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for relay UE supporting candidate U2U relay discovery in a wireless communication system" was invented by Chen-Hsiang Hung (Taipei City, Taiwan), Li-Te Pan (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yu-Hsuan Guo (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are provided for relay User Equipment (UE) supporting candidate UE-to-UE (U2U) relay discovery, wherein a method for a relay UE comprises receiving, from a target end UE, a discovery solicitation message for candidate U2U relay discovery, and...