ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,985, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Efficient scheduling of a two-hop communication link" was invented by Xiaojie Wang (Hillsborough, N.J.), Piyush Gupta (Bridgewater, N.J.) and Junyi Li (Fairless Hills, Pa.).

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 controller user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a network node, a relay scheduling request that indicates a request to schedule access to a universal mobile telecommunications system air interface (Uu) based at least in part on relaying one or more sidelink retrans...