ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,594, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Associating remote UE with relay UE in 5GC" was invented by Juying Gan (Shanghai), Zhang Zhang (Beijing), Congchi Zhang (Shanghai) and Zhang Fu (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of operating a radio access network node and a core network node to link a remote user equipment, RMUE, device to a relay user equipment, RLUE, device in a communications network are described. The radio access network node operates to receive a message that includes information corresponding to either the RMUE device or the RLUE device having a connec...