ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,939, issued on Nov. 4, 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. The relay node may receive a request to establish a links with a source node and a target node. The relay node may receive the M...