ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,267, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Paging optimizations for relay operation" was invented by Ozcan Ozturk (San Diego), Peng Cheng (Beijing) and Karthika Paladugu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects relate to paging optimizations in relay operations. A remote UE may provide one or more paging identifiers identifying the remote UE to one or more relay UEs over respective relay links therebetween. Each relay UE may provide the paging identifier(s) of the remote UE to a respective serving radio access network (RAN) node, which may further provide the paging identifier(s) of the remote UE to ...