ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,292, issued on April 14, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Relay communication method and apparatus" was invented by Wen Wang (Chang'an Dongguan, China), Qian Zheng (Chang'an Dongguan, China) and Zhenhua Xie (Chang'an Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses a relay communication method and apparatus, and pertains to the field of wireless communication technologies. The relay communication method performed by a first terminal includes: sending first information to a second terminal. The first information is used to indicate information related to a serving cell for t...