ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,245, issued on May 13, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Methods for power saving sensing and resource allocation" was invented by Tuong Duc Hoang (Montreal), Martino Freda (Laval, Canada), Tao Deng (Roslyn, N.Y.), Moon Il Lee (Melville, N.Y.), Ghyslain Pelletier (Montreal) and Paul Marinier (Brossard, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive, from a second WTRU, sidelink control information (SCI), including first information indicating if a resource is reserved by the second WTRU, and second information indicating if the second WTRU is a powe...