ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,375, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"RRC re-establishment and radio link failure reporting in sidelink relay systems" was invented by Peng Cheng (Beijing), Karthika Paladugu (San Diego), Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.) and Huichun Liu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for RRC connection reestablishment by a remote UE. In some cases, a remote UE may be configured to detect, on at least one of a first link between a first relay UE and a first network entity or a second link between the remote UE and the first relay UE, a radio link...