US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on April 15 for "Methods and apparatus for link management and recovery for sidelink relays" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,174, issued on April 15, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and apparatus for link management and recovery for sidelink relays" was invented by Martino Freda (Laval, Canada), Jaya Rao (Montreal), Tuong Hoang (Montreal), Tao Deng (New York) and Ghyslain Pelletier (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include detecting a sidelink radio link failure and, in response, starting a first timer based on a first timer value associated with selection of a candidate node. The candidate node is a relay node or a network node. The relay node is selected for a connection reestablishment an...