ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,231, issued on May 27, was assigned to ASUSTek Computer Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Method and apparatus of handling inter-device coordination for sidelink communication in a wireless communication system" was invented by Ming-Che Li (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chun-Wei Huang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a first device to perform sidelink communication. In one embodiment, the first device sends or reports a resource set to a second device, wherein the resource set comprises one or more sidelink resources in one or more slots in a carrier or cell. Furthermore, when th...