ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,169, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods and devices for synchronizing uplink slot number in sidelink communication" was invented by Yuzhou Hu (Shenzhen, China), Youxiong Lu (Shenzhen, China) and Shuanghong Huang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes methods, system, and devices for synchronizing at least one number of uplink slots for a user equipment (UE) for a sidelink communication. The method includes determining, by a first UE, at least one number of uplink slots for the sidelink communication between the first UE and a second UE; and transmitting, ...