ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,935, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ASUS Technology Licensing Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus for supporting discovery integrated into direct link establishment procedure 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 for a relay User Equipment (UE). In one embodiment, the relay UE receives a first PC5 message from a first remote UE for initiating a first direct link establishment procedure for a UE-to-UE (U2U) relay communication with a second remote UE. Furthermore, the relay UE, in response to reception of the first PC5 message, send...