ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,712, issued on June 16, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for user equipment (UE) discovery" was invented by Lianhai Wu (Beijing), Congchi Zhang (Shanghai), Mingzeng Dai (Shanghai), Jing Han (Beijing) and Haiming Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and apparatus for user equipment (UE) discovery. An exemplary method includes: generating a first discovery message for UE discovery; delivering the first discovery message to a PC5 signalling (PC5-S) layer of a first UE; generating a PC5-S message, wherein the PC5-S message includes dis...