ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,012, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Resource determining method and apparatus" was invented by Yun Liu (Shenzhen, China), Haibo Xu (Beijing), Zhou Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Yongxing Zhou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resource determining method includes obtaining, by a terminal device, resource information, determining, by the terminal device, a first resource jointly reserved by N services, where N is greater than or equal to 2, and determining whether to use the first resource as a candidate resource based on signal strength thresholds of the N services and signal...