US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 28 for "Systems, methods, and devices for NR sidelink in the unlicensed spectrum" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,641, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for NR sidelink in the unlicensed spectrum" was invented by Huaning Niu (San Jose, Calif.), Wei Zeng (Saratoga, Calif.), Dawei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Chunxuan Ye (San Diego), Oghenekome Oteri (San Diego), Hong He (San Jose, Calif.) and Haitong Sun (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein include solutions for enabling NR sidelink (SL) communications by using radio resource control (RRC) to provide ser equipment (UEs) with grant configuration (CGs) for unidirectional and/or bidirectional SL com...