ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,746, issued on March 11, was assigned to ASUS Technology Licensing Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for handling end-to-end PC5 radio link failure in a wireless communication system" was invented by Richard Lee-Chee Kuo (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for a source remote User Equipment (UE) are disclosed. In one embodiment, the source remote UE establishes a PC5 Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection with a relay UE. The source remote UE also establishes at least one end-to-end (E2E) PC5 RRC connection with at least one target remote UE via the relay UE. The source remote UE further tr...