ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,842, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ) (Stockholm).

"Apparatuses and methods for 2-hop cooperative group transmissions" was invented by Marten Ericson (Gammelstad, Sweden), Min Wang (Lulea, Sweden) and Jan Christoffersson (Lulea, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to telecommunications. In one of its aspects, the disclosure concerns a method in a source User Equipment (UE) for group transmissions in a wireless communications system comprising a group of UEs, including the source UE. The group is assigned a first group IDentity (ID). The source UE has data to ...