ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,137, issued on April 22, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for reconfiguring bandwidth part for groupcast in sidelink communication" was invented by Su Han Choi (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Gene Back Hahn (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operation method of a first terminal in a communication system is provided. The method includes configuring sidelink (SL) bandwidth parts (BWPs) used for groupcast sidelink communication and transmitting a configuration information message including configuration information of the SL BWPs to pa...