ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,738, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Kyocera Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Relay selection and reselection based on discovery message transmission resources" was invented by Henry Chang (San Diego), Amit Kalhan (San Diego) and Masato Fujishiro (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote user equipment (UE) device receives a sidelink (SL) discovery message from each of a plurality of candidate relay UE devices where each SL discovery message is transmitted using a discovery resource of a discovery resource pool of a plurality of discovery resource pools. Each discovery resource pool is allocated to a range of Reference Signal...