ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,490, issued on March 17, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for IUC operation based on timer in NR V2X" was invented by Giwon Park (Seoul, South Korea), Seungmin Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Seoyoung Back (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a first device 100 in a wireless communication system is proposed. The method may include: receiving, from a second device 200, an IUC request; triggering an IUC information report based on the IUC request; starting an IUC report timer related to a transmission of IUC information based on the triggered IUC informati...