ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,317, issued on July 28, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Sidelink communication method and apparatus, and device and storage medium" was invented by Boyuan Zhang (Dongguan, China), Qianxi Lu (Dongguan, China) and Bingxue Leng (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided in the present application are a sidelink communication method, and a device, which relate to the field of mobile communications. The method is applied to a first terminal in sidelink transmission, and includes: executing listen-before-talk (LBT) on a grant-free scheduled resource; and when the LBT con...