US Patent Issued to Apple on April 1 for "User equipment operating as relay via a sidelink connection" (Chinese, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,909, issued on April 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"User equipment operating as relay via a sidelink connection" was invented by Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.), Adesh Kumar (San Jose, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata (San Diego), Sethuraman Gurumoorthy (San Ramon, Calif.), Srirang A. Lovlekar (Fremont, Calif.), Sudeep Manithara Vamanan (Nuremberg, Germany) and Yuqin Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first user equipment (UE) is capable of serving as a relay for a second UE using a sidelink connection. The first ...