ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,157, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Intellectual Ventures Holding 81 LLC (Carson City, Nev.).

"Scheduling communication in a wireless communication system" was invented by Timothy Wilkinson (Bristol, Great Britain) and Timothy James Speight (Usk, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station (BS), transmitting a plurality of resource allocations for a group of user equipments (UEs) for communication of UEs in proximity to each other, wherein one or more of the UEs select at least one resource from the plurality of resources allocations to communicate that is utilized to communicate with at least one other UE in the ...