ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,481, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC (Overland Park, Kan.).

"Relay device selection for sidelink communication of wireless devices" was invented by Kun Lu (Bellevue, Wash.) and John J. Humbert IV (Roeland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is disclosed herein for selecting a relay wireless device for sidelink communication with a remote wireless device. In an implementation, a wireless communication device determines to establish a sidelink connection to a wireless communication network. The wireless device discovers one or more relay devices in connection with the wireless network. The w...