US Patent Issued to KT on July 1 for "Method for controlling sidelink communication, and apparatus therefor" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,228, issued on July 1, was assigned to KT Corp. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Method for controlling sidelink communication, and apparatus therefor" was invented by Sung-pyo Hong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a method and apparatus for controlling sidelink communication. The method for performing, by a terminal, sidelink communication, may include the steps of: for a sidelink HARQ operation, receiving, from a base station, sidelink discontinuous HARQ configuration information used for monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); transmitting sidelink data; and monitoring, in a PDCCH disconti...