ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,880, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Measurement reporting and handover procedures between relay paths" was invented by Peng Cheng (Beijing) and Karthika Paladugu (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a remote user equipment (UE) may communicate with a base station via a relay UE. For example, the relay UE may operate as a layer 2 (L2) UE-to-network relay supporting a PC5-to-Uu bearer mapping, such that the relay UE forwards messages between the PC5 bearer for the remote UE and the Uu bearer for the base...