ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,284, issued on April 14, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Sidelink synchronization in telecommunication systems" was invented by Berthold Panzner (Holzkirchen, Germany) and Jakob Lindbjerg Buthler (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first UE sending via a sidelink messages to second UE(s) indicating the first UE is changing to a different network access node and therefore might be changing a synchronization source, which the second UE(s) use to maintain a sidelink communication between the first and second UEs. The first UE performs a handover process from a first network access node in the fir...