ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,723, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Resource selection method and apparatus, and terminal" was invented by Jing Liang (Dongguan, China), Qian Zheng (Dongguan, China), Zichao Ji (Dongguan, China), Jiamin Liu (Dongguan, China) and Jianming Wu (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resource selection method is provided. The resource selection method includes sending, by a higher layer of a first terminal, first information to a physical layer of the first terminal. The first information is used for assisting the physical layer of the first terminal in selecting candid...