ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,478, issued on June 23, was assigned to ASUS Technology Licensing Inc. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for removing SRAP header in a wireless communication system" was invented by Richard Lee-Chee Kuo (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for a UE-to-Network (U2N) Relay User Equipment (UE) are disclosed. In one embodiment, the U2N Relay UE establishes at least one PC5 connection (or PC5 unicast link) with at least one child UE and establishes a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection with a network node. Furthermore, the U2N Relay UE receives a Sidelink Relay Adaptation Protocol (SRAP) D...