ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,883, issued on July 14, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for relay load information determination and relay selection" was invented by Zhang Zhang (Beijing), Min Wang (Lulea, Sweden), Zhang Fu (Stockholm) and Antonino Orsino (Kirkkonummi, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide method and apparatus for relay load information determination and relay selection. A method performed by a first terminal device includes obtaining relay load information of the first terminal device. The method further includes transmitting the relay load inf...