ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,700, issued on May 19, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Communication method and apparatus for trusted or untrusted relay, terminal, and network side device" was invented by Wen Wang (Dongguan, China) and Zhenhua Xie (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus for a relay, a terminal, and a network side device are provided. The communication method includes: receiving, by first user equipment (UE), relationship information delivered from a network side, where the relationship information is used to indicate a trust relationship of the first UE; receiving, b...