ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,166, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Innovative Technology Lab Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for transmission/reception of signals between wireless devices" was invented by Dong Hyun Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for supporting a device-to-device (D2D) communication between user equipments (UEs) are provided. The method of a device-to-device (D2D) communication between user equipments (UEs), the method includes: receiving, at a transmission (Tx) UE, resource assignment information transmitted from an evolved NodeB (eNB), the resource assignment information bei...