ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,326, issued on May 13, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and device for resource allocation and release in wireless sidelink communication" was invented by Wei Luo (Guangdong, China), Lin Chen (Guangdong, China), Boyuan Zhang (Guangdong, China) and Weiqiang Du (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to methods and devices for wireless sidelink resource allocation for a user equipment (UE) assisted by an anchor UE. Various mechanisms are disclosed for handling releasing of the anchor UE initiated by either the anchor UE or the assisted UE, and for handling sidelink resources already ...