ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,518, issued on March 17, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Method and device for resource determination" was invented by Shichang Zhang (Dongguan, China), Yi Ding (Dongguan, China) and Zhenshan Zhao (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for resource determination, including: receiving, by a first terminal, indication information indicating a reference resource set; determining a candidate resource set based on the reference resource set; and determining resources used for sending sidelink data based on the candidate resource set."

The patent was filed on June ...