ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,401, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for transmission and reception of sidelink control information in communication system" was invented by Gene Back Hahn (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Hyuk Min Son (Jeollabuk-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for transmission and reception of sidelink control information in a communication system are disclosed. An operation method of a transmission terminal comprises the steps of: generating first stage SCI including resource allocation information of a plurality o...