ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,654, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"System information block and paging transmission priority for sidelink relaying" was invented by Kianoush Hosseini (San Diego), Peng Cheng (Beijing), Karthika Paladugu (Hyderabad, India) and Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a system information block, a paging message, or both. The UE may determine a priority level associated with relaying the system information block, the paging message, or both on a sidelink ...