ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,157, issued on July 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Reduced sensing schemes for sidelink enhancement" was invented by Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Jia Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Weidong Yang (San Diego), Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.) and Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide reduced sensing schemes to facilitate sidelink transmissions." ...