ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,086, issued on March 24, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Sidelink configuration in dual connectivity" was invented by Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz (Espoo, Finland) and Antonino Orsino (Kirkkonummi, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device (12A) receives a sidelink configuration from each of multiple network nodes (20A, 20B) serving the wireless device (12A). The wireless device (12A) selects, from the received sidelink configurations, a sidelink configuration (16A) that is consistent or compatible with a sidelink configuration (16B) of another wireless device (12B) with which the wireles...