ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,493, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Methods and apparatuses for transmitting over sidelink multipath operations" was invented by Rudraksh Shrivastava (Erligheim, Germany), Oliver Blume (Stuttgart, Germany) and Sudeep Hegde (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, including: transmitting, by a first terminal device conducts communications with a base station directly and indirectly, over a first sidelink communication path, via a second terminal device acting as a relay. While the first sidelink communication path is active, the first terminal device transmits a request to...