ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,367, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).
"Relay UE determining method and device" was invented by Jing Liang (Dongguan, China) and Xiaodong Yang (Dongguan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relay User Equipment (UE) determining method and a device are provided. The relay UE determining method includes: obtaining relay-related information corresponding to each candidate UE in at least one candidate UE; and performing relay UE selection or relay UE reselection according to the relay-related information corresponding to each candidate UE."
The patent was filed on Sept. 20, 2022,...