ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,229, issued on June 17, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) to WTRU relay media access control (MAC) access conflict support" was invented by Magurawalage Chathura Madhusanka Sarathchandra (London), Michelle Perras (Montreal), Jung Je Son (Warrington, Pa.), Samir Ferdi (Kirkland, Canada) and Taimoor Abbas (Sainte-Julie, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relay node may detect conflicts regarding media access control (MAC) addresses. A target node may receive a request from the relay node. The request may comprise a request to establish communications with t...