ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,183, issued on April 15, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Groupcast procedures for V2X" was invented by Sarun Selvanesan (Berlin), Thomas Fehrenbach (Berlin), Roya Ebrahim Rezagah (Berlin), Cornelius Hellge (Berlin), Thomas Wirth (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin), Robin Thomas (Berlin), Baris Goktepe (Berlin) and Eiko Seidel (Sauerlach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless communication system includes a plurality of user devices, UEs, and at least one logical group defined in accordance with one or more logical group criteria. The logical group includes a plu...