US Patent Issued on Feb. 18 for "Methods, architectures, apparatuses and systems for WTRU-to-network relays" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,885, issued on Feb. 18.

"Methods, architectures, apparatuses and systems for WTRU-to-network relays" was invented by Xiaoyan Shi (Westmount, Canada), Samir Ferdi (Kirkland, Canada), Saad Ahmad (Montreal), Michelle Perras (Montreal, Canada), Alec Brusilovsky (Downingtown, Pa.) and Guanzhou Wang (Brossard, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for enabling discovery and selection of a WTRU-to-network relay by a remote WTRU and handling a WTRU-to-network relay configuration update. The WTRU-to-network relay may broadcast a service type indicating that the service type is available or conditionall...