ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,450, issued on June 23, was assigned to 1FINITY Inc. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Resource selection method and apparatus and system" was invented by Pengyu Ji (Beijing), Jian Zhang (Beijing), Lei Zhang (Beijing) and Xin Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resource selection apparatus, configured in a first terminal equipment, the resource selection apparatus includes a transmitter configured to transmit sidelink data to a second terminal equipment, the second terminal equipment being configured with sidelink discontinuous reception (SL DRX), and processor circuitry configured to generate a first candidate resource set and a second...