ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,538, issued on March 3, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea) and Korea National University of Transportation Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation (Chungju-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for direct communication in wireless LAN" was invented by Sung Hyun Hwang (Daejeon, South Korea), Kyu Min Kang (Daejeon, South Korea), Jae Cheol Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Jin Hyung Oh (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong Woo Lim (Daejeon, South Korea), Su Na Choi (Daejeon, South Korea) and Yong Ho Kim (Incheon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and device for ...