ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,522, issued on April 7, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Sidelink radio link management" was invented by Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.), Jongwoo Hong (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), SungDuck Chun (Fairfax, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Taehun Kim (Fairfax, Va.) and Jian Xu (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first wireless device receives, from a base station, one or more messages indicating a threshold number of radio link control (RLC) packet retransmissions associated with a sidelink radio link failure, wherein: the first wireless device has a radio resource control (RRC) connection wi...