ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,175, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Terminal device, network node and methods therein for handling system information" was invented by Zhang Zhang (Beijing), Antonino Orsino (Kirkkonummi, Finland) and Congchi Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method in a first terminal device. The method includes: receiving, from a second terminal device serving as a relay between the first terminal device and a network node, system information related to sidelink communication between the first terminal device and the second terminal device."

The p...