US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 14 for "Path switching in user equipment to user equipment relay" (Finnish, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,931, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Path switching in user equipment to user equipment relay" was invented by Vinh Van Phan (Oulu, Finland), Ling Yu (Kauniainen, Finland) and Faranaz Sabouri-Sichani (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include monitoring, by a source user equipment communicating with a destination user equipment by an indirect communication path via a relay user equipment, sidelink control information from the relay user equipment. The method may also include determining a first set of conditions and a second set of conditions based on the sidelink...