ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,141, issued on June 30, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd (Shenzhen, China).

"Communication method and apparatus" was invented by Lili Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication method and apparatus are provided which relate to the field of communication technologies, to achieve a manner of setting a duration value of a timer in sidelink communication. The method includes: a first terminal receives sidelink control information (SCI) from a second terminal, wherein the SCI indicates a sidelink time domain resource. The first terminal determines a first duration value of a first timer. The first duration va...