ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,551, issued on March 17, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Operation method and apparatus related to RRC connection and timer of a remote UE in a wireless communication system" was invented by Seoyoung Back (Seoul, South Korea), Giwon Park (Seoul, South Korea), Seungmin Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Jongwoo Hong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment relates to an operation method of a remote user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, including selecting a relay UE by the remote UE, establishing PC5 connection with the relay UE by the remote UE, and transmitting a messag...