ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,331, issued on April 21, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Apparatus, method, and computer program for use in sidelink synchronization" was invented by Prajwal Keshavamurthy (Munich), Thomas Haaning Jacobsen (Norresundby, Denmark), Renato Barbosa Abreu (Aalborg, Denmark), Pilar Andres Maldonado (Aalborg, Denmark), Troels Emil Kolding (Klarup, Denmark) and Jan Torst Hviid (Klarup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method are provided for determining that a second sidelink synchronization reference user equipment extends synchronization coverage of a first sidelink synchronization reference...