US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on June 24 for "Systems and methods for media delivery in cooperative device-to-device communications" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,839, issued on June 24, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for media delivery in cooperative device-to-device communications" was invented by Antti Heikkinen (Oulu, Finland) and Mikko Uitto (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sidelink connection is created between each device of a plurality of devices. If the sidelink connection quality is not sufficient to transmit a first version of a segment encoded at a first quality level, a lower quality version of the segment may also be retrieved. The lower quality version of the segment may be retrieved by a different device than the device...