ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,803, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Minimum communication range for MAC TB" was invented by Prateek Basu Mallick (Dreieich, Germany), Joachim Loehr (Wiesbaden, Germany), Karthikeyan Ganesan (Kronberg im Taunus, Germany) and Ravi Kuchibhotla (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for MAC TB formation and MCR selection. One apparatus includes at least one processor coupled with at least one memory and configured to cause the apparatus to detect a time-domain collision between a SL transmission and an UL transmission, where the apparatus does...