ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,495, issued on March 3, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Short signaling transmission for sidelink communication in unlicensed spectrum" was invented by Yong Liu (Shanghai), Tao Tao (Shanghai), Naizheng Zheng (Beijing) and Dong Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a short control signaling transmission for sidelink communication in an unlicensed spectrum. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, if a control signaling is to be transmitted to a second device via a short control signaling transmission, a first device determines whether the short co...