ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,476, issued on July 8, was assigned to ASUS Technology Licensing Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for remote UE supporting link identifier update procedure in UE-to-UE relay communication in a wireless communication system" was invented by Li-Te Pan (Taipei, Taiwan), Li-Chih Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yu-Hsuan Guo (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The first UE establishes a PC5 connection with a relay UE for supporting a relay communication between the first UE and a second UE via the relay UE, wherein a direct link context associated with the relay communication includes a layer-2 Identity (ID) of the second ...