ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,725, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Germany).

"Method for a relaying system for improving an awareness of the relaying system by user equipment, method for user equipment, apparatus, vehicle and computer program" was invented by Andreas Pfadler (Berlin) and Luca Montero Bayo (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a relaying system. The method for improving an awareness of the relaying system by user equipment includes encoding information about a relaying service in a vehicle-to-everything message and transmitting the vehicle-to-everything message to the user equipment to improve user equipme...