US Patent Issued to Ofinno on June 30 for "Sidelink resource allocation mode selection" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,157, issued on June 30, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Sidelink resource allocation mode selection" was invented by Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Hua Zhou (Vienna, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Kyungmin Park (Vienna, Va.) and Ali Cagatay Cirik (Chantilly, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first wireless device does not monitor, during a cell discontinuous transmission (DTX) non-active period and based on a cell DTX being configured, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The first wireless device triggers a scheduling request (SR) for requesting one or more sidelink (SL) resources. The first wirel...