US Patent Issued to MediaTek Singapore on April 14 for "System information delivery for layer-2-based sidelink relay" (Chinese, American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,349, issued on April 14, was assigned to MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"System information delivery for layer-2-based sidelink relay" was invented by Xuelong Wang (Beijing), Nathan Edward Tenny (San Jose, Calif.) and Guan-Yu Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are provided for system information delivery through a sidelink relay in a NR network. In one novel aspect, on-demand system information is delivered to a remote UE through a PC5-RRC message. In one embodiment, the relay UE aggregates SI requests from one or more UEs in the SI Request destined to the gNB. In one embodiment, the...