ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,452, issued on April 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Sidelink discovery" was invented by Yu-Ting Yu (San Francisco), Christian W. Mucke (Munich), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Sree Ram Kodali (San Jose, Calif.), Sudeep Manithara Vamanan (Nuremberg, Germany), Yuqin Chen (Beijing) and Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment (UE) is configured to transmit a discovery message for a sidelink connection. The UE receives a discovery message configuration, wherein the discovery message configuration includes at least one parameter dedicated to transmitting a discovery message for the...