ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,319, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"UE-to-UE relay service in 5G systems" was invented by Chang Hong Shan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-readable storage medium that stores instructions for execution by one or more processors of a UE. The instructions to configure the UE for a UE-to-UE relay operation in a 5G NR system and to cause the UE to perform operations comprising encoding a registration request for transmission to an AMF of the 5G NR system. The registration request indicates a 5G ProSe capability of the UE as a UE-to-UE relay. A UE policy container received from th...