ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,163, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Sidelink communications in cellular communication networks" was invented by Jan Torst Hviid (Klarup, Denmark), Benny Vejlgaard (Gistrup, Denmark), Oana-Elena Barbu (Aalborg, Denmark), Renato Barbosa Abreu (Aalborg, Denmark), Thomas Haaning Jacobsen (Norresundby, Denmark) and Johannes Harrebek (Aalborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising, determining, by a network node, a timing offset (TOA) of a first wireless link, determining, by the network node, a timin...