ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,774, issued on April 8, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for pre-empting a resource" was invented by Xiaodong Yu (Beijing), Zhennian Sun (Beijing), Karthikeyan Ganesan (Kaiserslautern, Germany) and Haipeng Lei (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application are related to a method and apparatus for pre-empting a resource of a user equipment (UE) supporting New Radio (NR). A method for sidelink communications performed by a UE according to an embodiment of the present application includes: receiving a sidelink control information (SCI) indicating one or more reserved...