ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,341, issued on May 27, was assigned to Koninklijke KPN N.V. (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO (s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Method of, and systems for, establishing a connection between a remote user equipment, UE, and a telecommunication network via a relay capable UE" was invented by Toni Dimitrovski (The Hague, Netherlands), Antonius Norp (The Hague, Netherlands) and Miodrag Djurica (Rotterdam, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of establishing a connection between a remote User Equipment, UE, and a telecommunication network via a relay capable...