ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,300, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"NR sidelink synchronization signal for enhanced vehicle-to-everything use cases with optimized receiver processing" was invented by Alexey Khoryaev (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Mikhail Shilov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Sergey Panteleev (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Sergey Sosnin (Zavolzhi, Russia) and Daewon Lee (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for a user equipment (UE) for a wireless communication system. The UE determines at least one sidelink primary synchronization signal (S-PSS...