ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,318, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Recovery over sidelink" was invented by Antonino Orsino (Kirkkonummi, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Radio Link Failure (RLF) recovery over Sidelink (SL) is provided. Systems and methods are disclosed herein that avoid triggering of a Radio Resource Control (RRC) re-establishment procedure by a User Equipment (UE) upon an RLF, thereby avoiding unnecessary signaling overhead and connectivity interruption. In some embodiments, the UE (UE1) is in communication with another UE (UE2) over an SL, and UE1 detects an RLF over a radio link. Upon...