ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,742, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to MEDIATEK Singapore Pte. Ltd (Singapore).

"Group handover with delayed or omitted signaling for layer 2 sidelink relaying" was invented by Nathan Edward Tenny (San Jose, Calif.), Xuelong Wang (Beijing) and Chun-Fan Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing a group handover procedure in a layer 2 relaying architecture is proposed to meet the group handover timing constraints. A relay device and one or more remote devices are collectively relocated from a source network node to a target network node, where messages of the group handover procedure are selectively...