MUMBAI, India, Nov. 14 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202547097476 A) filed by Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, on Oct. 9, for 'route identifier allocation for multi-hop user equipment-to-network relay.'

Inventor(s) include Liu, Jianhua; Cheng, Hong; Paladugu, Karthika; and Krishnan, Shankar.

The application for the patent was published on Nov. 14, under issue no. 46/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "In an aspect, a UE may obtain a first route ID for a first route between the first UE and a second UE. The UE may receive, from the second UE, a data packet originating from a third UE, the data packet indicating the first route ID. The UE may identify the third...