US Patent Issued to MediaTek on July 8 for "Sidelink configuration and traffic forwarding for layer-2 UE-to-UE relay" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,309, issued on July 8, was assigned to MediaTek (Singapore).

"Sidelink configuration and traffic forwarding for layer-2 UE-to-UE relay" was invented by Xuelong Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are provided for sidelink configuration and traffic forwarding for L2 UE-to-UE relay. In one novel aspect, the relay UE configures sidelink configuration for both direct PC5 link between the relay UE and the remote UE and indirect PC5 link between two remote UEs. The relay UE performs traffic forwarding for remote UEs based on the adaptation information included within the SL-SCH sub-header of PC5 MAC sub-PDU. I...