ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,189, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Methods for communication, terminal device, network device, and computer readable media" was invented by Zhaobang Miao (Beijing) and Gang Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a solution for sensing sidelink resources. In a method for communication, in accordance with receiving, at a terminal device from a network device, a first higher layer parameter indicating that partial sensing is enabled for the terminal device, the terminal device determines a candidate resource for performing a sidelink transmission in a target sl...