US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 26 for "Method of sidelink groupcasting, and network node thereof" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,460, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method of sidelink groupcasting, and network node thereof" was invented by Vinh Van Phan (Oulu, Finland) and Ling Yu (Kauniainen, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method includes a processor of a first UE receiving first group information for a user group with user-device members, the first group information including information for mapping a sidelink channel resource for each of the user-device members to perform a groupcast communication over sidelink for the user group, the first UE being a user-device member of the user group. The method f...