ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,318, issued on April 14, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for determining frequency domain resource" was invented by Qun Zhao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a frequency domain resource, including: determining, by a first type of sidelink device, a target device type of a receiving end device for sidelink communication; and determining a target frequency domain resource for sidelink communication with the receiving end device according to the target device type."

The patent was filed on July 23, 2019, under Application No. 17/628,840.

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