ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,199, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus of channel access procedure priority on sidelink" was invented by Hongbo Si (Plano, Texas), Emad N. Farag (Flanders, N.J.) and Carmela Cozzo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for channel access procedure priority on a sidelink (SL) in a wireless communication system. A method of a user equipment (UE) includes determining a type of a SL channel access procedure before a SL transmission, which is a Type 1 SL channel access procedure or a Type 2 SL channel access procedure, and determining, ...