US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Sept. 15 for "Indicating network support of various sidelink (SL) functionality" (Swedish, Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,859, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Indicating network support of various sidelink (SL) functionality" was invented by Min Wang (Lulea, Sweden) and Antonino Orsino (Kirkkonummi, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments include methods for a first user equipment (UE) configured for sidelink (SL) operation in a cell of a radio access network (RAN). Such methods include receiving, from a RAN node via the cell, one or more messages including a configuration for SL discovery and/or 5 communications. The configuration includes at least one of the following: a first indica...