ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,108, issued on July 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Sidelink control information stage 2 format" was invented by Chunhai Yao (Beijing), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Yushu Zhang (Beijing), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Weidong Yang (San Diego), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.), Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.), Yang Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Jie Cui (San Jose, Calif.), Yuchul Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.) and Jia Tang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for performing sidelink communication. An example method gene...