US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Jan. 28 for "Determining whether an inactive relay WTRU may indeed serve a network-initiated connection at a remote served WTRU" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,192, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Determining whether an inactive relay WTRU may indeed serve a network-initiated connection at a remote served WTRU" was invented by Martino Freda (Laval, Canada), Jaya Rao (Montreal), Tao Deng (New York) and Tuong Hoang (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and corresponding apparatuses are provided herewith for determining whether a relay wireless transmit/receive unit, WTRU, may serve a network initiated connection at a remote WTRU based on the coverage status of the remote WTRU, on a Channel Busy Ratio, CBR, and on access cont...