ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,140, issued on July 1, was assigned to FUJITSU Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Sidelink transmission and reception methods and apparatuses" was invented by Jian Zhang (Beijing), Xin Wang (Beijing), Pengyu Ji (Beijing) and Guorong Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sidelink transmission and reception methods and apparatuses. The sidelink transmission method includes transmitting first sidelink control information via a physical sidelink control channel; and transmitting second sidelink control information and a first transport block via a physical sidelink shared channel, wherein the first sidelink control information or the second ...