ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,686, issued on March 17, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Method for processing sidelink retransmission resources, terminal device, and network device" was invented by Qianxi Lu (Dongguan, China) and Bingxue Leng (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for processing a sidelink retransmission resource, a terminal device and a network device. A first terminal device acquires a sidelink retransmission grant resource, and ignores the sidelink retransmission grant resource in response to the sidelink retransmission grant resource being within a duration ...