ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,347, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Sidelink communication method and apparatus" was invented by Tae Joong Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sidelink communication method, performed by a first terminal, may comprise: determining a first power value of a first control channel for transmitting control information for sidelink communication based on open-loop power control; transmitting the control information on the first control channel having the first power value; in response to receiving a response signal corresponding to the c...