ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,134, issued on May 12, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Resource reservation prediction for sideline UEs" was invented by Sarun Selvanesan (Berlin), Baris Goktepe (Berlin), Thomas Fehrenbach (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin) and Cornelius Hellge (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user device, UE, for a wireless communication network is described. The wireless communication network provides a set of resources for a communication, and the UE carries out sensing on one or more subsets of time resources of the set of resources. A number of time resources of the one or more subsets is less than the ...