ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,434, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sidelink relay routing options for transmission of data from wireless communication device to network" was invented by Karthika Paladugu (San Diego), Hong Cheng (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Gavin Bernard Horn (La Jolla, Calif.) and Haris Zisimopoulos (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a remote device generates data for transmission to a network based on an application, selects one of a set of data routing options for routing the data to the network based on policy control information; each of the set of data routing options includes routing the data via a ...