ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,567, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"SL data transmission for unicast sidelink between user equipments" was invented by Vinh Van Phan (Oulu, Finland), Ling Yu (Kauniainen, Finland), Lianghai Ji (Aalborg, Denmark), Faranaz Sabouri-Sichan (Aalborg, Denmark), Rudraksh Shrivastava (Erligheim, Germany) and Sudeep Hegde (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ARQ system for sidelink communication between transmitter and receiver, with the help of cooperative UE, or relay UE is disclosed. The relay intercepts the initial transmission from transmitter to receiver. If the relay does no...