ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,305, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Proximity service communication method, management network element, terminal device, and communication system" was invented by Weijun Xing (Shanghai) and Wenfu Wu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a proximity service communication method, a communication apparatus, and a communication system. When a terminal device requests a communication resource corresponding to a first sidelink, a management network element may determine, based on location information of the terminal device, whether the terminal device is loc...