ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,731, issued on April 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Techniques for joint sidelink relay scheduling downlink control information" was invented by Yan Zhou (San Diego), Qian Zhang (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Sony Akkarakaran (Poway, Calif.), Navid Abedini (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a relay user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a downlink control information (DCI) message scheduling a first transmission between a source node and the relay UE and a second transm...