ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,715, issued on May 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Session offloading for L2 UE-to-network relay architecture" was invented by Karthika Paladugu (San Diego), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.), Soo Bum Lee (San Diego) and Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A remote UE or a relay UE may identify a configuration for a relocation of one or more session termination points associated with one or more radio access packet data sessions from the relay UE to the remote UE or from the remote UE to the relay UE. The remote UE or the relay UE may execute the relocation of the ...