ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,116, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Lenovo (Beijing) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for resource allocation for sidelink communication" was invented by Haipeng Lei (Haidian District, China), Xiaodong Yu (Haidian District, China), Zhennian Sun (Chaoyang District, China) and Haiming Wang (Xicheng District, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is related to methods and apparatuses. According to some embodiments of the disclosure, a method includes: receiving sidelink control information (SCI) on a first interlace of a first set of interlaces on a carrier, wherein the SCI may schedule a second set of int...