ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,062, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Packet routing for layer-2-based sidelink relay" was invented by Xuelong Wang (Beijing), Nathan Edward Tenny (San Jose, Calif.), Ming-Yuan Cheng (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Guan-Yu Lin (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods are provided for L2-based sidelink relay for packet routing. In novel aspect, the L2-based sidelink relay for packet routing is configured based on interest indications from one or more candidate UEs and corresponding UE report from candidate UEs. In one embodiment, the UE report is received from an Uu int...