ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,412, issued on April 21, was assigned to ASUS Technology Licensing Inc. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for supporting U2U relay communication via Layer-2 U2U relay in a wireless communication system" was invented by Chen-Hsiang Hung (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Li-Te Pan (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for a first User Equipment (UE) are disclosed. In one embodiment, the first UE establishes a PC5 connection with a second UE for supporting a UE-to-UE (U2U) relay communication. The first UE also sends to the second UE a message to trigger a negotiated relay reselection, wherein the m...