ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,523, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Sidelink data packet sending and receiving method and communication apparatus" was invented by Peng Zhang (Shanghai), Rongkuan Liu (Shanghai), Tianze Li (Shanghai), Chixiang Ma (Shanghai) and Hua Xu (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including determining, by a first terminal device, a size of a sidelink data packet, determining, by the first terminal device based on the size of the sidelink data packet, a first quantity of time-frequency units corresponding to the sidelink data packet, determining, by the first terminal device, a f...