ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,429, issued on March 25, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Device to device relay connection establishment and configuration" was invented by Martino Freda (Laval, Canada), Jaya Rao (Montreal), Tuong Hoang (Montreal), Tao Deng (New York) and Moon Il Lee (Melville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There may be one or more systems, methods, and/or devices that address a relay wireless communication scenario. For example, in such a scenario, there may be at least three entities, a remote a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) may need to communicate with a network node (e.g., gNB) and/or another...