US Patent Issued to Nokia Technologies on Dec. 23 for "Terminal node to terminal node communication" (Finnish, Danish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,292, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Terminal node to terminal node communication" was invented by Vinh Van Phan (Oulu, Finland), Ling Yu (Kauniainen, Finland), Lianghai Ji (Aalborg, Denmark), Faranaz Sabouri-Sichani (Aalborg, Denmark), Rudraksh Shrivastava (Erligheim, Germany) and Sudeep Hegde (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for establishing a unicast sidelink communication channel between a source user equipment (UE) and a target UE via a relay UE is described. The source UE sends a relay request message to a potential relay UE. The message includes ...