ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,956, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Relay discovery within a sidelink groupcast" was invented by Vinh Van Phan (Oulu, Finland), Ling Yu (Espoo, Finland), Lianghai Ji (Aalborg, Denmark), Rudraksh Shrivastava (Stuttgart, Germany) and Sudeep Hegde (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is provided a method comprising: indicating that a HARQ process is initiated for transmitting at least a first HARQ message comprising an inquiry as the first message of the HARQ process, wherein the inquiry inquires whether a relay terminal for relaying a communication of a transmitting terminal i...