ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,310, issued on May 27, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for sidelink scheduling request and buffer status report transmission" was invented by Jing Han (Chaoyang District, China), Lianhai Wu (Chaoyang, China), Haiming Wang (Xicheng District, China) and Jie Hu (Changping District, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application are directed to a method and apparatus for SL SR and SL BSR transmission. In an embodiment of the present application, the method includes triggering a sidelink (SL) buffer status report (BSR) for an SL logical channel; triggering an SL schedulin...