ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,411, issued on July 14, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Congestion control for sidelink transmissions" was invented by Ricardo Blasco Serrano (Espoo, Finland), Jose Angel Leon Calvo (Aachen, Germany), Shehzad Ali Ashraf (Munich) and Jeong Hun Kim (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method (1200) for congestion control during sidelink transmissions. The method (1200) is performed by a user equipment, UE (1300), in a wireless communication network. The method (1200) comprises determining (1220) that the UE is actively receiving in a subset o...