ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,931, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for path switch in a wireless communication system" was invented by Lianhai Wu (Beijing), Jing Han (Beijing), Jie Hu (Beijing), Min Xu (Beijing) and Haiming Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for path switch in a wireless communication system. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method may include: establishing, at a first user equipment (UE), a radio resource control (RRC) connection with abase station (BS) via a second UE, wherein a PC5 RRC ...