ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,900, issued on April 8, was assigned to DATANG MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Resource allocation method and communication device" was invented by Ying Wang (Beijing), Yali Zhao (Beijing) and Jiancheng Sun (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resource allocation method and a communication device are provided. The resource allocation method of the present disclosure is operable by a base station, the base station includes a Central Unit (CU) and a Distributed Unit (DU) connected to the CU. The method includes: determining, by the DU, a Sidelink (SL) resource allocation mode; and allocating, by the DU, SL res...