ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,106, issued on July 1, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea), WONKWANG UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR INDUSTRY-ACADEMY COOPERATION (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Iksan-si, South Korea).

"Method and device for paging in sidelink communication" was invented by Gene Back Hahn (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Hyuk Min Son (Iksan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device for paging in sidelink communication are disclosed. An operating method of a transmitting terminal comprises the steps of: receiving SL paging setup information from a base station; receiving a paging DCI from the base station in an SP...