US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on May 19 for "Sidelink discovery with user equipment to user equipment relay" (Finnish, Hungarian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,671, issued on May 19, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Sidelink discovery with user equipment to user equipment relay" was invented by Vinh Van Phan (Oulu, Finland), Ling Yu (Kauniainen, Finland), Mohamed Amin Nassar (Munich), Gyorgy Tamas Wolfner (Budapest, Hungary) and Hannu Petri Hietalahti (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for performing sidelink discovery with user equipment (UE) to UE relay are provided. An initiating UE initiates a sidelink discovery solicitation message toward relay UEs and responding UEs. A relay UE can facilitate the discovery between two or more UEs by monitor...