ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,682, issued on March 11, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and device for allocating sidelink resource in communication system" was invented by Hyuk Min Son (Jeollabuk-do, South Korea), Gene Back Hahn (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and In yong Jung (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device are configured to allocate a sidelink resource in a communication system. An operation method of a first terminal includes steps of: generating first stage sidelink control information (SCI) including first resource allocation information and a first in...