US Patent Issued to MediaTek Singapore on Aug. 19 for "Methods and apparatus of sidelink relay based data communication" (Taiwanese, Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,056, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Methods and apparatus of sidelink relay based data communication" was invented by Xuelong Wang (Beijing), Nathan Edward Tenny (Beijing, Calif.), Chia-Chun Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chun-Fan Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Guan-Yu Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are provided for sidelink relay-based UE-to-network communication. The disclosure describes the relay UE performing delayed relay forwarding upon determining the remote UE is in the DRX cycle based on the PC5 configuration. The relay UE buffers the relay traffic...