ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,080, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Prioritization of overlapping SL and UL transmissions" was invented by Karthikeyan Ganesan (Kronberg im Taunus, Germany), Prateek Basu Mallick (Dreieich, Germany), Joachim Loehr (Wiesbaden, Germany), Alexander Johann Maria Golitschek Edler von Elbwart (Darmstadt, Germany) and Ravi Kuchibhotla (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining which transmission to prioritize between overlapping SL and UL transmissions. One apparatus includes a processor and a transceiver operable on an uplink chann...