ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,833, issued on June 17, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Emergency service" was invented by SungDuck Chun (Fairfax, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Peyman Talebi Fard (Vienna, Va.), Jian Xu (McLean, Va.), Weihua Qiao (Herndon, Va.) and Stanislav Filin (Reston, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first wireless device comprises one or more processors and memory storing instructions. When executed by the one or more processors, the instructions cause the first wireless device to: receive, from a second wireless device, a sidelink announcement message comprising a relay service code (RSC)...