US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on May 19 for "Relay UE selection" (Finnish, Danish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,038, issued on May 19, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Relay UE selection" was invented by Lianghai Ji (Aalborg, Denmark), Vinh Van Phan (Oulu, Finland), Ling Yu (Kauniainen, Finland), Rudraksh Shrivastava (Erligheim, Germany) and Faranaz Sabouri-Sichani (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Inter-alia, a method is disclosed comprising: determining a suitability to serve as a relay device for a relayed communication between a first device and a second device via one or more relay devices to be selected among one or more relay device candidates; transmitting a message as part of a relay discovery pro...