ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,860, issued on April 8, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Wireless communication system having a specific sidelink frame structure" was invented by Thomas Wirth (Berlin), Sarun Selvanesan (Berlin), Thomas Fehrenbach (Berlin), Cornelius Hellge (Berlin), Baris Goktepe (Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Berlin) and Roya Ebrahim Rezagah (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to embodiments (main aspect), a wireless communication system includes one or more base stations and a plurality of user equipment UEs. The plurality of user equipment is configured for a sidelink communication (e.g., a sidelink tra...