ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,828, issued on May 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Data transmission method and apparatus" was invented by Erkai Chen (Shanghai), Zhengzheng Xiang (Shanghai) and Lei Lu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data transmission method and an apparatus, the method including determining, by a first terminal apparatus, a priority of uplink data carried on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), a priority of first sidelink data carried on a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH), and a priority of sidelink feedback control information (SFCI) carried on a physical sidelink feedback channel (PSF...