ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,010, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Sidelink channel reservation acquisition and collision recovery in wireless communication systems" was invented by Hussain Elkotby (Conshohocken, Pa.), Ali Esswie (Montreal) and Ravikumar Pragada (Warrington, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure generally pertains to methods and apparatus for on-demand low-power sidelink channel reservation acquisition in wireless communication systems. A WTRU may determine to request on-demand reports related to sidelink resource usage. A WTRU that receives the report may generate a report bas...