ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,186, issued on July 1, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method of logical channel prioritization to support sidelink relay" was invented by Guan-Yu Lin (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Ming-Yuan Cheng (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of UE prioritizing and multiplexing simultaneous sidelink relay data for Logical Channel Prioritization (LCP) procedure in new radio (NR) system is proposed. UE can provide traffic prioritization based on traffic category when UE has simultaneous traffic from more than one traffic categories to transmit. The sidelink relay traffic prioritization is then used for transmissio...