ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,330, issued on March 31, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Communications method and apparatus" was invented by Xingwei Zhang (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communications method and apparatus are provided, to schedule transmission of sidelink feedback control information after a sidelink feedback mechanism is introduced into a sidelink. The communications method and apparatus may be applied to the Internet of vehicles, for example, V2X, LTE-V, or V2V, or may be applied to fields such as D2D, intelligent driving, and intelligent connected vehicles. The method includes: A first terminal...