US Patent Issued to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung on Nov. 25 for "Proximity awareness in sidelink communications" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,857, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Proximity awareness in sidelink communications" was invented by Elke Roth-Mandutz (Erlangen, Germany), Khaled Shawky Hassan Hussein (Erlangen, Germany), Shubhangi Bhadauria (Erlangen, Germany) and Martin Leyh (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for a wireless communication system is configured to be connected to at least one UE via a sidelink for a sidelink communication with the one or more UEs. The apparatus is configured to obtain distance information representing a certain communicatio...