ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,572, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Sidelink-related event notification for sidelink group via sidelink channel" was invented by Vinh Van Phan (Oulu, Finland), Ling Yu (Espoo, Finland), Lianghai Ji (Aalborg, Denmark), Daniela Laselva (Aalborg, Denmark), Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Aalborg, Denmark), Sudeep Hegde (Stuttgart, Germany), Berthold Panzner (Munich) and Torsten Wildschek (Gloucester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes causing or detecting, by a user device that is a member of a sidelink group of user devices, a sidelink-related event that triggers an...