ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,346, issued on April 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Connection management solution to support unicast and groupcast communication over sidelink for eV2X" was invented by Ansab Ali (Hillsboro, Ore.), Kyeongin Jeong (Portland, Ore.), Sangeetha L. Bangolae (Houston) and Youn Hyoung Heo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus of a first user equipment (UE) comprises one or more baseband processors to generate a message to indicate to a second UE that the first UE intends to establish a new radio (NR) sidelink connection for enhanced vehicle-to-everything (eV2X) services, and to process a res...