ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,608, issued on July 14, was assigned to Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC (Carson City, Nev.).

"Scheduling communication in a wireless communication system" was invented by Timothy Wilkinson (Bristol, Great Britain) and Timothy James Speight (Usk, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station (BS) is configured to receive a communication indicating a location of a first UE, wherein the first UE is in proximity to a second UE. The BS is further configured to receive a resource request from the first UE for scheduling information to the second UE. A base station (BS) is configured to transmit, based on the first UE and...