ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,864, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Bidirectional sidelink radio link control bearers" was invented by Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.), Clive E. Rodgers (Palo Alto, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Beijing), Hong He (Cupertino, Calif.), 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.), Vijay Venkataraman (San Jose, Calif.) and Yuqin Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark ...