ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,899, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method, apparatus, and computer program product for service-continuity indication in sidelink user equipment to network relay during path switch" was invented by Vinh Van Phan (Oulu, Finland), Gyorgy Tamas Wolfner (Budapest, Hungary), Berthold Panzner (Holzkirchen, Germany), Ling Yu (Kauniainen, Finland), Lianghai Ji (Aalborg, Denmark) and Jakob Lindbjerg Buthler (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided to facilitate relay discovery, selection, and/or reselection for U2N relaying ov...