ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,218, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods for signaling transmission for sidelink relay communications" was invented by Xueying Diao (Guangdong, China), Mengzhen Wang (Guangdong, China) and Lin Chen (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing signaling transmission or exchange for wireless sidelink relay communications are described. In one embodiment, a method performed by a first network node is disclosed. The method comprises: obtaining, from a wireless communication device, a first indication information indicating that the wireless communicat...