ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,456, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Managing sidelink communication" was invented by Chih-Hsiang Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of obtaining sidelink configuration in a CU of a distributed base station includes receiving sidelink information related to sidelink communications at a UE operating in a first cell (1602); initiating handover procedure or a cell change procedure so that the UE utilizes a radio resource on a second cell associated with a target node, the target node corresponding to a DU of the distributed base station or another base station (1604); tran...