ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,711, issued on April 29, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Sidelink enhancements resource allocation assistance information" was invented by Rocco Di Girolamo (Laval, Canada), Pascal Adjakple (Great Neck, N.Y.), Mohamed M. Awadin (Plymouth Meeting, Pa.), Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Yifan Li (Conshohocken, Pa.), Kyle Pan (Saint James, N.Y.), Zhuo Chen (Claymont, Del.) and Allan Tsai (Boonton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The exchange of resource allocation assistance information between a requester User Equipment (UE) and an assistant UE allows the requester to make better resource al...