US Patent Issued to KYOCERA on Sept. 8 for "Path switch to indirect communication through relay UE device in RRC connection state other than RRC connected" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,852, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Path switch to indirect communication through relay UE device in RRC connection state other than RRC connected" was invented by Henry Chang (San Diego) and Masato Fujishiro (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station transmits a Radio Resource Control (RRC) Reconfiguration message to a remote user equipment (UE) device to initiate a path switch from direct communication with the remote UE device to indirect communication through a relay UE device. The relay UE device is an RRC connection state other than RRC Connected (RRC CONN) when the path sw...