ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,285, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Ofinno LLC (Reston, Va.).

"Sidelink channel occupancy time in unlicensed band" was invented by Huifa Lin (Reston, Va.), Hyoungsuk Jeon (Centreville, Va.), Esmael Hejazi Dinan (McLean, Va.), Bing Hui (Nanjing, China) and Nazanin Rastegardoost (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device selects, based on a sidelink (SL) selection window for SL resource selection, a first multi-slot resource from among a set comprising multi-slot candidate resources in a SL resource pool. The first multi-slot resource comprises a plurality of SL slots. The wireless device determines a random numb...