ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,150, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Enhanced sidelink sensing and resource allocation" was invented by Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian (San Diego), Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Chunhai Yao (Beijing) and Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for power savings by a wireless device. The technique including determining, by a first wireless device, a sidelink resources pool including a set of sidelink resources for...