US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on June 3 for "Connection management in multi-hop networks" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,035, issued on June 3, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Connection management in multi-hop networks" was invented by Liang Hu (San Diego) and Zhang Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of establishing connections between wireless devices in a multi-hop sidelink communication network. The method comprises, at a wireless device: receiving a communication request message from a source wireless device; relaying the communication request message over a sidelink; receiving, from a target wireless device that received the relayed communication request message, a communication acceptance r...