ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,446, issued on April 7, was assigned to SPREADTRUM COMMUNICATIONS (SHANGHAI) Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Service maintaining method in sidelink relay system and relay device, and medium" was invented by Xing Liu (Pudong New Area, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service maintaining method in a sidelink relay system, a relay device, and a medium are provided. The method includes: receiving feedback on a transmitted data packet from at least one UE in response to being configured to forward multicast services; and determining to stop forwarding a current MBMS service or continue to forward the current MBMS service based on the feedback...