ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,757,228, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method for selecting time-frequency resources intended to be used by a receiver equipment belonging to a broadcast group for the broadcasting of messages, corresponding devices and computer programs" was invented by Hao Lin (Chatillon Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a vehicle to anything environment, in order to allow the broadcasting of periodic messages, the emitter equipment regularly verifies whether time-frequency resources of a radio signal are used or not. When the emitter equipment detects an available time-frequency resource, it sele...