ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,747, issued on April 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"V2X network assisted side-Link reconfiguration after failure of a PC5 data link" was invented by Fangli Xu (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Beijing), Longda Xing (San Jose, Calif.), Murtaza A. Shikari (Mountain View, Calif.), Sethuraman Gurumoorthy (San Jose, Calif.), Sree Ram Kodali (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Srinivasan Nimmala (San Jose, Calif.), Srirang A. Lovlekar (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yuqin Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform methods for network ...