ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,895, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Detecting sidelink attacks" was invented by Lianghai Ji (Aalborg, Denmark), Prajwal Keshavamurthy (Munich), Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Gistrup, Denmark) and Daniel Medina (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided an apparatus for a sidelink, SL, communication comprising means for transmitting a transport block, TB, via the SL communication, means for receiving a feedback in response to the transmitted TB, means for storing information contained in the transmitted TB upon receiving said feedback, means for receiving a status report compr...