US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 20 for "Relay link switching operations in wireless communication" (Chinese, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,319, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Relay link switching operations in wireless communication" was invented by 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: "A network entity can trigger a remote user equipment (UE) to switch between an indirect communication link with a network to another indirect communication link or direct communication link with the network. In some aspects, the network entity can trigger the remote UE to perform an inter-gNB switching or sidelink switching using a radio resource control (RRC) connectio...