US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 10 for "Enhanced sidelink hybrid automatic repeat request with integrated user equipment-to-user equipment relay" (German, Finnish, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,291, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Enhanced sidelink hybrid automatic repeat request with integrated user equipment-to-user equipment relay" was invented by Rudraksh Shrivastava (Erligheim, Germany), Vinh Van Phan (Oulu, Finland), Ling Yu (Kauniainen, Finland), Sudeep Hegde (Stuttgart, Germany), Lianghai Ji (Aalborg, Denmark) and Berthold Panzner (Holzkirchen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include initiating, by a transmitter user equipment, a hybrid automatic repeat request process for groupcasting a transport block over seedbank to one or more relay user equipment ...