ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,516, issued on March 17, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Resource selection in side link (SL) communications" was invented by Shehzad Ali Ashraf (Munich), Jose Angel Leon Calvo (Aachen, Germany) and Ricardo Blasco Serrano (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for resource selection in sidelink communications. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication device (WCD) for resource selection for a sidelink transmission includes performing channel sensing of a channel to be used for sidelink transmission, determining a first set of resou...