US Patent Issued to Apple on June 3 for "Downlink control information (DCI) for sidelink grant" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,997, issued on June 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A service device (e.g., a user equipment (UE), a new radio NR (gNB), or other network component) as a service provider/consumer c...