ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,449, issued on June 23, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for partial sensing operation in sidelink communication" was invented by Ui Hyun Hong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for a partial sensing operation in sidelink communication are disclosed. An operating method of a transmission terminal includes the steps of receiving configuration information of an additional partial sensing window from a base station; determining one or more candidate resources by performing a sensing operation in a sensing windo...