US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on May 12 for "U2U relay UE-initiated dedicated relay discovery for supporting direct-to-indirect path switch" (Finnish, Hungarian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,065, issued on May 12, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"U2U relay UE-initiated dedicated relay discovery for supporting direct-to-indirect path switch" was invented by Vinh Van Phan (Oulu, Finland), Ling Yu (Espoo, Finland) and Gyorgy Tamas Wolfner (Budapest, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE operates in a system where a source UE communicates using SL communications with a destination UE and detects a SL coverage issue with the sidelink communications between the source and destination UEs. The UE sends, to at least the destination UE, an announcement concerning at least one of the sidelink coverage ...