ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,477, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Transmission priority determination method and terminal device" was invented by Qianxi Lu (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method and a terminal device for determining transmission priority. Wherein the method for determining transmission priority includes: obtaining, by a terminal device, corresponding priority rule according to data with highest priority in uplink data, and determining transmission order of the uplink data and sidelink data."

The patent was filed on July...