ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,295, issued on April 8, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Two-stage design for new radio (NR) sidelink control information (SCI)" was invented by Chien-Yi Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ju-Ya Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Tao Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receive (Rx) UE performs blind detection to decode a first-stage Sidelink Control Information (SCI) in a received signal. The first-stage SCI contains control information for the Rx UE to locate time-and-frequency resources used by a transmit (Tx) UE. The time-and-frequency resources are used to transmit the first-stage SCI and a second-stage SCI via a Physica...