ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,717, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Mechanisms for user equipment beam pairing on sidelink communication" was invented by Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Weidong Yang (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego) and Chunhai Yao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing a beam pairing procedure between a transmission UE and a receiver UE. The transmission...