ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,789, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Relay extension in cellular network" was invented by Vinh Van Phan (Oulu, Finland), Ling Yu (Espoo, Finland), Lianghai Ji (Aalborg, Denmark), Faranaz Sabouri-Sichani (Aalborg, Denmark), Gyorgy Tamas Wolfner (Budapest, Hungary), Berthold Panzner (Munich), Jakob Lindbjerg Buthler (Aalborg, Denmark), Rudraksh Shrivastava (Stuttgart, Germany), Sudeep Hegde (Stuttgart, Germany) and Prajwal Keshavamurthy (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document discloses a solution for performing rerouting of a relayed connection. In an aspect, a method for an anchor...