ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,848, issued on May 5, was assigned to Nokia Technologies (Espoo, Finland).

"Sidelink resource reselection" was invented by Jakob Lindbjerg Buthler (Aalborg, Denmark), Laura Luque Sanchez (Nibe, Denmark), Devaki Chandramouli (Plano, Texas), Faranaz Sabouri-Sichani (Aalborg, Denmark), Frank Frederiksen (Klarup, Denmark) and Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Gistrup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To take into account a possible collision during sidelink communications, a transmitter (transceiver) may request one or more other apparatuses (transceivers, receivers) to monitor and report transmissions on sidelink resources at least duri...