US Patent Issued to Apple on March 25 for "Dual-mode sidelink operation" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,352, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Dual-mode sidelink operation" was invented by Zhibin Wu (Los Altos, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Fangli Xu (Beijing), Haijing Hu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Murtaza A. Shikari (Mountain View, Calif.), Clive E. Rodgers (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sethuraman Gurumoorthy (San Ramon, Calif.), Sree Ram Kodali (San Jose, Calif.), Srinivasan Nimmala (San Jose, Calif.), Srirang A. Lovlekar (Fremont, Calif.), Vijay Venkataraman (San Jose, Calif.), Longda Xing (San Jose, Calif.) and Yuqin Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are presented herein of app...