ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,586, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Determining collisions and conflicts for sidelink communications" was invented by Alexey Khoryaev (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Mikhail Shilov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Artyom Lomayev (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Artyom Putilin (Kstovo, Russia), Kilian Peter Anton Roth (Munich), Sergey Panteleev (Maynooth, Ireland) and Andrey Chervyakov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-readable storage medium stores instructions to configure a UE for sidelink operation in a 5G NR network, and to cause the UE to perform operations including encodi...