ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,241, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Sidelink adaptation protocol for remote UE connectivity" was invented by Pascal Adjakple (Great Neck, N.Y.), Zhuo Chen (Claymont, Del.), Rocco Di Girolamo (Laval, Canada), Joseph Murray (Schwenksville, Pa.), Guodong Zhang (Woodbury, N.Y.) and Kyle Pan (Saint James, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices that may assist in remote UE connectivity. There may be use of an enhanced version of Backhaul Adaption Protocol (BAP) on the sidelink for multi-hop connection oriented sidelink communication or multi-hop connectio...