ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,060, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"User equipment and method with improved critical communication notification in wireless communications" was invented by Khaled Shawky Hassan (Erlangen, Germany), Elke Roth-Mandutz (Erlangen, Germany) and Benjamin Sackenreuter (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user equipment for wireless communications is provided. The user equipment includes a transmitter and a receiver. A first resource pool includes a first plurality of resources for transmission. A second resource pool includes a second plurality of resources for transmiss...