ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,641,591, issued on May 26, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Sidelink discovery associated with NR relays" was invented by Tuong Duc Hoang (Montreal), Martino M. Freda (Laval, Canada), Tao Deng (Roslyn, N.Y.) and Jaya Rao (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described herein for sidelink discovery, for example, associated with relays, e.g., NR relays. Discovery data may be transmitted, for example, to initialize communication between devices. Discovery data may be transmitted alone or multiplexed with other data (e.g., sidelink data). Discovery data with ...