ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,127, issued on June 30, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Reusing sidelink resources associated with dropped configured grant" was invented by Berthold Panzner (Holzkirchen, Germany), Vinh Van Phan (Oulu, Finland) and Ling Yu (Kauniainen, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for reusing sidelink resources associated with dropped configured grant are provided. For example, a method can include receiving, with a first device, a sidelink grant from a network node for transmission to a third device; receiving a coordination request from a second device;...