ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,348, issued on May 12, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Relay selection for multi-relay communications" was invented by Luanxia Yang (Beijing), Changlong Xu (Beijing), Shaozhen Guo (Beijing), Jing Sun (San Diego), Xiaoxia Zhang (San Diego), Rajat Prakash (San Diego) and Siyi Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communications systems and methods related to routing communications in a multiple-relay environment are provided. A base station (BS) transmits, to one or more wireless communication devices, a reference signal configuration indicating one or more reference signal resources. The base station receive...