US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 23 for "Range extension for Sidelink Control Information (SCI) stage 2" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,258, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Range extension for Sidelink Control Information (SCI) stage 2" was invented by Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.) and Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In 5G/New Radio (NR), sidelink communication refers to a channel for communications directly between devices, e.g., user equipment (UEs), without use of traditional uplink or downlink communication channels. Sidelink Control Information (SCI) is separ...