US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on Sept. 2 for "Methods and apparatuses directed to non-access stratum procedures in connection with layer 2 relaying" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,072, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods and apparatuses directed to non-access stratum procedures in connection with layer 2 relaying" was invented by Saad Ahmad (Montreal), Behrouz Aghili (Commack, N.Y.), Xiaoyan Shi (Westmount, Canada), Samir Ferdi (Kirkland, Canada) and Michelle Perras (Montreal, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses directed to non-access stratum procedures in connection with layer 2 relaying are provided. A method implemented in a first WTRU, may comprise: receiving, from a second WTRU, a first sidelink transmission comprising...