ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,156, issued on July 28, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Multi-hop sidelink downlink data loss recovery" was invented by Ali Esswie (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote user equipment device may receive traffic payload from a source radio access network node, with which the remote user equipment has an established communication session, via a relay user equipment device of a sidelink path. The relay device may receive a path switch request, which may be triggered by degraded communication channel conditions between the remote device and the source node or the relay device. The path switch req...