ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,592, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Allocating resources for direct user equipment communication" was invented by Ling Yu (Espoo, Finland), Vinh Van Phan (Oulu, Finland), Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Aalborg, Denmark), Prajwal Keshavamurthy (Munich) and Jakob Lindbjerg Buthler (Aalborg, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are provided for determining an active time of a user equipment to which a sidelink communication is to be sent. A sidelink resource allocation request is generated requesting allocation of a resource for transmitting this sidelink communication, ...