ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,004, issued on June 3, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Efficient signaling of sidelink radio resources" was invented by Daniel Medina (Munich), Lianghai Ji (Aalborg, Denmark), Berthold Panzner (Munich) and Nuno Manuel Kiilerich Pratas (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for efficient signaling of sidelink radio resources. A first terminal device selects a subset of radio resources from a set of candidate radio resources. The first terminal device determines a set of resource indices for the subset of radio resources based at least partly on a pre-defined enumeration order of ...