ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,903, issued on May 6, was assigned to ASUS Technology Licensing Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Method and apparatus for supporting inter-GNB direct-to-indirect path switching for UE-to-NW relay communication in a wireless communication system" was invented by Li-Te Pan (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device are disclosed for a first network node. In one embodiment, the method includes the first network node receiving a first information of candidate relay User Equipments (UEs) from a remote UE. The method further includes the first network node sending the first information of candidate relay UEs or a second info...