ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,422, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Malikie Innovations Ltd. (Dublin).

"Allocating resources for a device-to-device transmission" was invented by Rene Faurie (Versailles, France), Eswar Vutukuri (Havant, Great Britain) and Takashi Suzuki (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for allocating resources for device-to-device transmission between two or more user equipment (UEs) includes transmitting, from a first UE to a second UE, a resource allocation configuration for device-to-device communications. A resource request for a device-to-device transmission is received from the second UE. In response to the resource request, ...