ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,297, issued on May 13, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Apparatus and method for determining data resource for wireless communications" was invented by Sung Jun Yoon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for supporting a device-to-device (D2D) communication between user equipments (UEs) are provided. The method includes: receiving, at a UE, configuration information associated with a D2D data transmission resource, the configuration information including information of a D2D data allocation period and being transmitted from an evolved NodeB (eNB); determining, at the UE, a...