ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,232, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Reference signaling design and configuration mapping" was invented by Juan Liu (Shenzhen, China), Chuangxin Jiang (Shenzhen, China), Mengzhen Li (Shenzhen, China), Junpeng Lou (Shenzhen, China) and Qi Yang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sidelink based communications include communications between equipment ("UE") and/or with a basestation. The sidelink communications may include certain sidelink information from a communication device that includes UE information, positioning/location information, or other capabilities that are used for the sidelin...