ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,401, issued on March 17, was assigned to Kyocera Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"PC5 broadcast messages with selected system information" 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 relay user equipment (UE) device transmits selected system information in a sidelink discovery message where the selected system information is a subset of system information received from a cell at the relay UE device. A remote UE device receiving the sidelink discovery message with the selected system information obtains at least system information for accessing the cell...