ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,853, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Resource allocation for sidelink communication" was invented by Berthold Panzner (Munich) and Jakob Lindbjerg Buthler (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus, comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform: receiving a configuration indicative of at least a first resource pool and a second resource pool, wherein the first resource pool is for a different purpose than the second resource poo...