ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,686, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods for simultaneous support of and switching between scheduled and UE autonomous resource selection modes for NR V2X sidelink" was invented by Sangeetha L. Bangolae (Houston), Kyeongin Jeong (Portland, Ore.), Ansab Ali (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Youn Hyoung Heo (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is described for a user equipment (UE) to provide vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication in a 5G new radio (NR) network. The UE includes processor circuitry that mode switches between two modes of resource allocation for the V2X communicati...