ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,997, issued on July 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (South Korea).

"Sidelink synchronization for intra-band coexistence" was invented by Yaser Mohamed Mostafa Kamal Fouad (San Diego) and Philippe Jean Marc Michel Sartori (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method are disclosed for synchronization performed by a UE in a coexistence band of a first communication scheme and a second communication scheme. A method includes determining if a base station or another UE synchronized with the base station is detected, in response to determining that neither the base station nor the another UE synch...