ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,851, issued on May 5, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Handling sidelink transmissions and receptions" was invented by Lianghai Ji (Aalborg, Denmark), Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Aalborg, Denmark), Ling Yu (Kauniainen, Finland) and Vinh Van Phan (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising receiving an indication from a transmitting terminal device indicative of a sidelink resource reserved for receiving a subsequent sidelink transmission from the transmitting terminal device, detecting that the subsequent sidelink transmission is not received from the transmitting terminal device over the...