ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,309, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for sidelink groupcast communication" was invented by Gene Back Hahn (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and a device for sidelink groupcast communication. An operation method of an SGH comprises the steps of: determining a TM for communication with one or more SGMs belonging to an SG group; transmitting a message including the TM to a base station connected to the SGH; receiving, from the base station, configuration information of sidelink resources allocate...