ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,045, issued on June 30, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).
"Method of path selection in PDCP layer to support multipath configuration" was invented by Guan-Yu Lin (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Chia-Hao Yu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Chung-Yin Ho (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided to support path selection for a remote UE configured with multipath in a UE-to-network relay. A direct path or an indirect path is set as the primary path. Side information of the indirect path is considered for path selection. A remote UE can select a suitable path by utilizing the side information for path selection to ch...