ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,678, issued on July 15, was assigned to Asus Technology Licensing Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for paging reception via UE-to-Network Relay in a wireless communication system" was invented by Li-Te Pan (Taipei, Taiwan) and Richard Lee-Chee Kuo (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device are disclosed for paging reception via UE-to-Network Relay. In one embodiment, the method includes a UE being enabled to use layer-2 type UE-to-Network (U2N) Relay. The method also includes the UE discovering one or more relay UEs in response to enabling of using layer-2 type U2N Relay. Furthermore, the method in...