ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,316, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for supporting system information acquisition by sidelink remote terminal over sidelink relay" was invented by Hyunjeong Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Anil Agiwal (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method and apparatus for a sidelink remote user equipment (UE) to request and acquire a system information message from a base station through a sidelink relay UE in a wireless communication system a...