ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,164, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Switching between sidelink transmission and reception" was invented by Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Hyukjin Chae (San Diego), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Jongwoo Hong (Vienna, Va.), Taehun Kim (Fairfax, Va.), Bing Hui (Nanjing, China), Nazanin Rastegardoost (McLean, Va.) and Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first wireless device receives first sidelink control information (SCI): scheduling a reception of a first PSSCH, and indicating that the first wireless device transmits a first physical sidelin...