ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,404, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Multi-hop wireless relay support" was invented by Michelle Perras (Montreal), Saad Ahmad (Montreal) and Eldad Zeira (Encinitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices, and systems are disclosed for multi-hop relays that may be implemented by advertising first relaying capabilities and a first number of hops to reach a remote wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), receiving second relaying capabilities and a second number of hops to reach the remote WTRU from a selected relay WTRU, updating a relay capabilities table based on...