ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,319, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"ProSe remote and relaying entity QoS management" was invented by Nithin Srinivasan (Berlin), Roya Ebrahim Rezagah (Berlin), Jasmina McMenamy (Berlin), Baris Goktepe (Berlin), Thomas Wirth (Berlin), Cornelius Hellge (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin), Sarun Selvanesan (Berlin) and Thomas Fehrenbach (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network, acts as a relaying entity so as to provide functionality to support connectivity between one or more remote UEs and a destination of the wireless communica...